TR-005 Data-Oriented Communication Architecture for Automated and Assisted Driving Systems

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About the Report: TR-005 Data-Oriented Communication Architecture for Automated and Assisted Driving Systems

AVCC is tackling the challenges of spiraling complexity, costs, and effort of vehicle software system development and maintenance by envisioning an ecosystem of interoperable software components that work together by adhering to a common set of principles, that are laid out as recommendations in this document. The recommendations help simplify and accelerate the development of software-defined vehicles via a common communication data architecture.

AVCC recommendations include recognizing and adopting data-oriented architecture as a best practice for building interoperable software systems, adopting the data-distribution service (DDS) international open standard as its data-oriented communication architecture standard, and using it to develop a common data model comprising of datatypes that describe structure and quality-of-service profiles that describe behavior.

Data-Oriented Communication Architecture. Software components interact with shared data instead of one another. Data is the interface. Software components can be updated independently of one another. The software databus middleware enforces the data contracts.

The recommendations ensure that software developers can develop components independently, update them incrementally, and evolve them over time while exposing interoperable data-oriented communication interfaces that use a common data model with the common DDS software databus. An interoperable data-oriented communication interface can have multiple interchangeable component implementations appropriate to the use case (e.g., simulation, mock testing, etc.), may be implemented using an appropriate API and programming language, and may be sourced from multiple suppliers.

Data-Oriented Communication Architecture enables flexible deployment. The DDS software databus abstracts away the details of the physical connectivity and compute platforms. It exposes a logical shared dataspace that is elastic and extends to wherever the applications are, from the edge to cloud compute platforms. There is no single point of failure or server or broker—data distribution is peer-to-peer, expressed as location-independent data that can change over time.

The recommendations ensure that system integrators can assemble software components that expose semantically interoperable communication interfaces, in various combinations as per system requirements, using a common DDS software databus to create differentiated software system architectures. Software components can be flexibly deployed on a variety of compute platforms; may be incrementally added, removed, or updated; and may be reused across product lines and models.

The recommendations open access to a competitive marketplace of reusable software components, that can be rapidly integrated around the common data model by using a common DDS software databus on a variety of compute platforms, thus simplifying software system integration while lowering the cost of system development, deployment, and maintenance.

AVCC - The Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium, Inc.

September 13, 2023

About the Report: TR-005 Data-Oriented Communication Architecture for Automated and Assisted Driving Systems

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