TY - GEN
T1 - When air traffic management meets blockchain technology
T2 - Digital Avionics Systems Conference (38th : 2019)
AU - Dehez Clementi, Marina
AU - Larrieu, Nicolas
AU - Lochin, Emmanuel
AU - Kaafar, Mohamed Ali
AU - Asghar, Hassan
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The Aviation industry has been booming for several decades and is expected to keep growing in the future. Therefore,Air Traffic Management (ATM) tools are likely to be soon overwhelmed by the demand. The Single European Sky ATMResearch Program (SESAR) 2020, controlled by EUROCONTROL, intends to revisit the management of aeronautical information along its full lifecycle and across the whole European ATM system. The efficient sharing of information over large scale cyber physical systems is a non-trivial problem that raises several challenges including data lineage, data consistency, access rights management, and many more. Part of the SESAR initiative, System-Wide Information Management(SWIM) project defines standards to enhance the security of aeronautical data shared among stakeholders. Most of its propositions include centralized or partially centralized mechanisms in order to enforce data confidentiality, and privacy.In this paper, we intend to discuss how blockchains can improve the sharing of sensitive data over the ATM system. More specifically, we use the example of flight data and describe a high level Blockchain-based concept that mimics the decentralized nature of existing ATM system to provide a reliable, distributed storage platform for flight information.
AB - The Aviation industry has been booming for several decades and is expected to keep growing in the future. Therefore,Air Traffic Management (ATM) tools are likely to be soon overwhelmed by the demand. The Single European Sky ATMResearch Program (SESAR) 2020, controlled by EUROCONTROL, intends to revisit the management of aeronautical information along its full lifecycle and across the whole European ATM system. The efficient sharing of information over large scale cyber physical systems is a non-trivial problem that raises several challenges including data lineage, data consistency, access rights management, and many more. Part of the SESAR initiative, System-Wide Information Management(SWIM) project defines standards to enhance the security of aeronautical data shared among stakeholders. Most of its propositions include centralized or partially centralized mechanisms in order to enforce data confidentiality, and privacy.In this paper, we intend to discuss how blockchains can improve the sharing of sensitive data over the ATM system. More specifically, we use the example of flight data and describe a high level Blockchain-based concept that mimics the decentralized nature of existing ATM system to provide a reliable, distributed storage platform for flight information.
KW - ATM
KW - blockchains
KW - Flight planning
KW - data security
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084766526&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/DASC43569.2019.9081622
DO - 10.1109/DASC43569.2019.9081622
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
SN - 9781728106496
T3 - AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings
SP - 1
EP - 10
BT - 2019 IEEE/AIAA 38th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
CY - Piscataway, NJ
Y2 - 8 September 2019 through 12 September 2019
ER -