A RabbitMQ-based framework to deal with naval sensors systems design complexity

This is a preprint of the following chapter: Quentel et al., A RabbitMQ-based framework to deal with naval sensors systems design complexity, published in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, edited by Kohei Arai, 2023, Springer reproduced with permission of The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.Naval sensors systems are complex due to their nature, the services they need to fulfil under rigorous constraints and the information they need to be aware on their environment. Sensors are among the sources of the information that is collected, exchanged and synthesized and their integration into a sensors systems architecture present numerous challenges. In this context, it is difficult to visualize those systems as a whole, and we lack methods to abstract the complexity level. We will introduce an approach to evaluate different architectural concepts and their impacts on the communication network. This paper presents our methodology involving: (1) an operational simulation, which allows to get closer to real use case; (2) a benchmark involving a middleware to simulate, in an abstract manner, communications between naval platforms, the operational environment, and sensors; (3) a network monitoring tool allowing to test new mechanisms that might be implemented in the final architecture