From Preparation to Evaluation of Integrated ATM-Security-Prototype Validations

It is quite easy to set up validation trials and measure the benefits of one prototype by using well-established validation techniques. But things are getting worse if more than one new system is involved in the evaluation and to make it even more complicated the systems are geo-distributed over different partners' sites. How to cope with the amount of possible combinations of several security prototypes developed in a European aviation security research project? And how to prepare, setup and perform the needed geo-distributed validation trials? These questions will be answered in the paper also detailing a specific validation exercise to describe the approach chosen. The paper will finish with lessons learnt and the outlook to further research topics.