Speakers
Dr
Giuseppe Montano
(Airbus Defence and Space Ltd)Mr
Paul Walker
(4Links Limited)
Description
The ESA study project ‘Network Management Service Suite’ (N-MaSS) for Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery (FDIR) focuses on implementation and standardisation of FDIR functions within the SpaceWire network management layer.
The N-MaSS project started in 2012 and is carried out by an industrial consortium composed of Airbus Defence and Space Limited (project prime), 4Links Limited, Airbus DS GmbH and Teletel SA. The activity of the two latter partners was completed by 2013. This presentation describes the progress done over the last 12 months by Airbus Defence and Space Limited and 4Links Limited, who have been focusing on verification setup, breadboard (hardware and software) development, system verification and demonstration preparation.
The verification setup is housed in a single 4U chassis and comprises all the essential elements of the system, including a redundant set of PCDUs, SMUs, PDHUs, Routing switches, and Nodes, all interconnected by SpaceWire. The full demonstration equipment will use two such 4U chassis, with additional nodes (including four nodes in a Teletel iSAFT rack-mount PC), routing switches, and cables.
Software development of the FDIR Manager and the Network Configuration Tool is near to completion. The consortium plans to perform a final demonstration and complete the project within 2015.
