1. Walter Legrand CTO office walter.legrand@eads.com
Open Source standards
and new ICT based models
Netcentricity
Walter Legrand
CTO office
ETSI SOS INTEROPIII
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2. Summary The OSS example of classification The ICT netcentricity model
The open source standards OSS framework
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3. Setting the scene Inter operability has three main levels:
Operational ( mission, dispatch, information, procedures…EMTEL…)
System (systems of systems…MESA…)
Technical ( …TETRA, SOS I…, SCIP (NATO)…)
Can be static or dynamic
Focus on Public Protection and Disaster Relief-PPDR, Homeland Security-HLS markets.
Isolated interop. (Human intervention), Connected interop. (Peer to peer), Functional interop., (Distributed evt), Domain interop. (Integrated evt), Enterprise interop. (Universal access)
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4. An interoperability model
Political Objectives
Political Objectives
Organizational
Organizational
Interoperability
Interoperability
Harmonized Strategy/Doctrines
Harmonized Strategy/Doctrines
OSS
Aligned Operations
Aligned Operations
Aligned Procedures
Aligned Procedures
OSS
Layers of Interoperability
Knowledge/Awareness
Knowledge/Awareness
OSS
Information Interoperability
Information Interoperability
Data/Object Model Interoperability
Data/Object Model Interoperability
Protocol Interoperability
Protocol Interoperability
Technical
Physical Interoperability
Physical Interoperability
Interoperability 1
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5. Bottom up/ Top down approach
Bottom-up approaches seek to achieve interoperability by adoption of specific technologies or information representation standards
bottom-up is generally focused on technical approaches that are independent of the particular organization that might adopt them.
Top-down approaches typically come at the problem from an enterprise architecture or broad scope perspective (usually directive/mandate-oriented)
top-down is having a specific organization’s enterprise or mission objectives drive interoperability
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6. Commonality and system interaction based approaches
Commonality-based approaches focus on the execution environments of systems and try to achieve interoperability across a given enterprise scope by having every system within that scope adopt a particular set of standard elements for their execution environment.
The system interaction-based approach. This approach focuses on the space between systems rather than on what the execution environment might be inside a given system’s boundary. In interaction-based approaches, no one knows what your execution environment is – it’s a black box approach to interoperability.
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7. OSS example of classification
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8. Summary The OSS example of classification The ICT netcentricity model
The open source standards OSS framework
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9. ICT model IT Middleware 1
Mission
Procedure…
GRID
Platforms, person, resource…
SOA
Services building blocks - Voice, Data, MM…
IT Middleware 1
TC Middleware2 (Management of QoS, Security, Mobility, Priority, Access selection…)
OSS
XML IP
SIP
Wired and Wireless fixed and mobile Accesses
MAC/LLC
Waveforms: Legacy, Narrow, Wide and Broad band,…
Access: IP, ADSL, ATM…
SDR
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10. Netcentricity An ICT model interoperability is netcentricity.
the power of digital networks to distribute Voice and Data information instantly and without borders. Characterized by global connectivity, real-time collaboration and rapid and continuous information exchange, netcentricity is ubiquitous
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11. Summary The OSS example of classification The ICT netcentricity model
The open source standards OSS framework
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12. OSS scope OSS cannot apply to all the ICT model
Critical issues relate to:
Quality
Security
Maintenability
Coherence
Performance
To be compared to an SDO standard
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13. Framework A framework for
Defining
Evaluating
Measuring
Validating
netcentricity should be set up and standardized ?
This would allow OSS to be qualified in a System (of Systems) with the various SDO Standards used in the System
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14. Conclusion ICT based models combine
Interoperability
Netcentricity
They allow to rely, partially, on different Open source standards
A netcentricity framework could be made open
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