TY - JOUR
T1 - Mission-Critical Systems Design Framework
AU - Houliotis, Kyriakos
AU - Oikonomidis, Panagiotis
AU - Charchalakis, Periklis
AU - Stipidis, Elias
N1 - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
PY - 2018/3/12
Y1 - 2018/3/12
N2 - Safety-critical systems are well documented and standardised (e.g. IEC 61508, RTCA DO178B) within system design cycles. However in Defence and Security, systems that are critical to the success of a Mission, are not defined within the literature, nor are there any guidelines in defining criticality in their design or operational capabilities. When it comes to Vetronics (Vehicle Electronics), a mission-critical system is a system with much complexity and mixed criticality levels that is a part of the overall platform (military vehicle), offering integrated system capabilities. In this paper, a framework is presented, providing guidelines in designing, efficiently and effectively, mission-critical systems considering principles of Interoperable Open Architectures (IOA), mission-critical integrity levels and following new standardisation activities such as NATO Generic Vehicle Architecture (NGVA). A Defensive Aid Suite (DAS) system is used as a case study to illustrate how this framework can be exploited. The indention of this extension is to provide an approach to precisely estimate threats in order to de-risk missions in the very early stages.
AB - Safety-critical systems are well documented and standardised (e.g. IEC 61508, RTCA DO178B) within system design cycles. However in Defence and Security, systems that are critical to the success of a Mission, are not defined within the literature, nor are there any guidelines in defining criticality in their design or operational capabilities. When it comes to Vetronics (Vehicle Electronics), a mission-critical system is a system with much complexity and mixed criticality levels that is a part of the overall platform (military vehicle), offering integrated system capabilities. In this paper, a framework is presented, providing guidelines in designing, efficiently and effectively, mission-critical systems considering principles of Interoperable Open Architectures (IOA), mission-critical integrity levels and following new standardisation activities such as NATO Generic Vehicle Architecture (NGVA). A Defensive Aid Suite (DAS) system is used as a case study to illustrate how this framework can be exploited. The indention of this extension is to provide an approach to precisely estimate threats in order to de-risk missions in the very early stages.
U2 - 10.25046/aj030215
DO - 10.25046/aj030215
M3 - Article
SN - 2415-6698
VL - 3
SP - 128
EP - 137
JO - Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal
JF - Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal
IS - 2
ER -