Data type separation for aircraft mission systems digital backbone

Abstract

An embodiment system includes a digital switching fabric system forming a digital backbone network, and one or more first system components including first computer program code that causes the respective first system component to perform communication of data with one or more second system components over a virtual link through the digital backbone network. Communication of data is performed using a standardized serialization protocol and according to a transport mechanism. The respective first system component implements an end point infrastructure services (EPIS) stack providing endpoint data distribution services. The digital backbone network provides network connectivity the first system components and the one or more second system components according by limiting the communication to connectionless communication using transport mechanisms associated with the first system components. Each of the transport mechanisms is one of a time aware transport service, rate constrained transport service, or best effort transport service.