Building a Virtual 1553 Bus Network

This paper presents the concept design of a virtual 1553 Telemetry bus configured within a virtual network, and hosted in VmWare on a workstation machine. This is an extension of Morgan’s Telemetry Testbed which is in development and which creates a virtual Telemetry Network with all of the elements needed to conduct research into cyber security attacks and defenses of these networks. The 1553 bus is a legacy analog network that is fundamental to telemetry systems. Capturing this analog structure in a digital virtual environment is an opportunity and a challenge.