A REST-ful interpretation for embedded modular systems based on open architecture

James Lyke

doi:10.1117/12.2229363

12 May 2016 A REST-ful interpretation for embedded modular systems based on open architecture

James Lyke

Proceedings Volume 9849, Open Architecture/Open Business Model Net-Centric Systems and Defense Transformation 2016; 984909 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2229363
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2016, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

The much-anticipated revolution of the “Internet of things” (IoT) is expected to generate one trillion internet devices within the next 15 years, mostly in the form of simple wireless sensor devices. While this revolution promises to transform silicon markets and drive a number of disruptive changes in society, it is also the case that the protocols, complexity, and security issues of extremely large dynamic, co-mingled networks is still poorly understood. Furthermore, embedded system developers, to include military and aerospace users, have largely ignored the potential (good and bound) of the cloudlike, possibly intermingling networks having variable structure to how future systems might be engineered. In this paper, we consider a new interpretation of IoT inspired modular architecture strategies involving the representational state transfer (REST) model, in which dynamic networks with variable structure employ stateless application programming interface (API) concepts. The power of the method, which extends concepts originally developed for space plug-and-play avionics, is that it allows for the fluid co-mingling of hardware and software in networks whose structure can overlap and evolve. Paradoxically, these systems may have the most stringent determinism and fault-tolerant needs. In this paper we review how RESTful APIs can potentially be used to design, create, test, and deploy systems rapidly while addressing security and referential integrity even when the nodes of many systems might physically co-mingle. We will also explore ways to take advantage of the RESTful paradigm for fault tolerance and what extensions might be necessary to deal with high-performance and determinism.

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James Lyke "A REST-ful interpretation for embedded modular systems based on open architecture", Proc. SPIE 9849, Open Architecture/Open Business Model Net-Centric Systems and Defense Transformation 2016, 984909 (12 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2229363

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