Performance Benchmarking of Distributed Systems Applications for Urban Air Mobility
Abstract
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) aims to revolutionize metropolitan transportation by enabling low-altitude air traffic networks that provide flexible and rapid aerial services through the use of drones and eVTOLs. However, integrating these new airspace users into already saturated urban airspace, often constrained by both commercial aviation and dynamic groundlevel obstacles, presents substantial challenges. To ensure safety and maintain operational standards, there is an increasing need for well-structured frameworks that support airspace planning and system interoperability. Emerging operational concepts propose a distributed architecture in which multiple service providers manage access and share information about airspace constraints and conditions. However, deploying distributed systems in safetycritical contexts introduces various overheads, particularly in terms of system performance. Based on future projections of airspace access demand, our findings indicate that current state-of-the-art solutions may not meet the scalability requirements of future UAM systems.
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