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ITU-T Focus Group on Aviation Applications of Cloud Computing for Flight Data Monitoring
Key findings, recommendations for next steps and future work

1.40 genetic algorithms (Deliverable 1): A search heuristic that mimics the process of natural selection, and
uses methods such as mutation and crossover to generate new genotype in the hope of finding good solutions
to a given problem.
1.42 inertial navigation system (INS) (Deliverable 2&3): A navigation aid that uses a computer, motion
sensors (accelerometers) and rotation sensors (gyroscopes) to continuously calculate via dead reckoning the
position, orientation, and velocity (direction and speed of movement) of a moving object without the need
for external references.

1.43 infrastructure as a service (IaaS) (Deliverable 1): Provides hardware and basic software infrastructure on which
an enterprise application can be deployed and executed. It offers computing, storage and network resources.

1.44 infrastructure for flight data streaming (Deliverable 4): The combination of airborne systems, ground
systems and/or associated services that support the generation, collection, analysis, transmission, storage
and sharing of flight data.

1.45 intercloud (Deliverable 1): Global interconnected cloud of clouds driving connection of multiple isolated
clouds, applying same network security, quality of service (QoS), and access control policies of a public cloud.
1.46 machine learning (Deliverable 1): Subfield of computer science driven by computational thinking (CT)
that evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence.

1.47 multi-factor authentication (MFA) (Deliverable 1): Method of computer access control which a user can
pass by successfully presenting several separate authentication stages.

1.48 one-way quantum computer (Deliverable 1): Computation decomposed into sequence of one-qubit
measurements applied to a highly entangled initial state or cluster state.
1.49 passenger information and entertainment services domain (PIESD) (Deliverable 4): PIESD is defined to
include any device or function of a device that provides entertainment and network services to passengers.
It may contain multiple systems from different vendors which may or may not be interconnected to one
another, and its borders may not necessarily follow physical device borders. It may also include passenger
device connectivity systems, passenger flight information systems (PFIS), broadband television or connectivity
systems, seat actuator or message system and controls.

1.50 passenger owned devices domain (PODD) (Deliverable 4): PODD is defined to include only those devices
that passengers may bring on board. They may connect to the airplane network. Their connectivity to the
airplane network is defined to be provided by the passenger information and entertainment services domain
(PIESD). Until they connect via PIESD, the passenger owned devices (PODs) should be considered external to
the airplane network.

1.51 platform as a service (PaaS) (Deliverable 1): Provide on top of an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) a
predefined development environment, such as Java, advanced business application programming (ABAP) or
Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), with various additional services (e.g. database, analytics or authentication).

1.52 predictive maintenance (Deliverable 2&3 and 4): Tamper-proof collection of flight data for early detection
of degradation.

1.53 quantum computing (Deliverable 1): Study of theoretical computation systems (quantum computers) that
make direct use of quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform
operations on data.

1.54 quantum gate array (Deliverable 1): Computation decomposed into sequence of few-qubit quantum gates.

1.55 Qubit (Qbit) (Deliverable 1): A unit of quantum information – the quantum analogue of the classical bit.

1.56 quick access recorder (QAR) (Deliverable 2&3 and 4): An airborne flight data recorder designed to provide
quick and easy access to raw flight data, through means such as universal serial bus (USB) or cellular network

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