From the Cloud to the Clouds: Taking Integrated Modular Avionics on a New Level with Cloud-Native Technologies

Kurzfassung

The goal of this scientific work is to apply transfer knowledge from the cloud computing area to avionics and to contribute to a more heterogeneous research picture. The focus of this work lies in particular in the transformation of avion- ics architectures from a federated system to an integrated system, as well as its future development. The challenges and solutions of known architectures will be analyzed and compared with new achievements in cloud computing. In particular the Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) approach plays a role in this comparison, as well as its reliable, secure and cost-effective deployment in airplanes, drones or spaceships. The master thesis is structured as follows: In the introduction, the classification of the thesis is repeated and put in context with the current state of the art. Then, in the second chapter, the path from a federated avionics architecture to an integrated system will be shown and its problems, challenges and ideas will get isolated. This gained information is sub- sequently being compared with current Cloud-Native technologies and potential solutions for these subjects will be proposed.