RDBMS AND XML FOR TELEMETRY ATTRIBUTES

Abstract

One problem facing telemetry engineers is the ability to easily translate telemetry attributes from one system to another. Engineers must develop a written set of attributes that define a given telemetry stream and specify how the telemetry stream is to be transmitted, received, and processed. Telemetry engineers take this document and create the configuration for each product that will be exposed to the telemetry stream (airborne, ground, flight line). This process is time-consuming and prone to error. L-3 Telemetry-West chose to implement a solution using relational databases and eXtensible Markup Language (XML) to solve this and other issues.