NDLI: Architectural Consequences of Domain Formation in Tactical Edge Networks

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Shake, T. Gibbons, T.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Airborne Networks Group, MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA, USA (Shake, T.; Gibbons, T.)
Abstract	The separation of military network users at the tactical edge into multiple "domains", "enclaves", or "clusters" is prevalent in today's network architectures and is likely to continue indefinitely. Several factors promote the formation of these domains even within relatively small geographic regions, and these different domains do not typically support easy network interconnection with each other. This paper describes some major reasons that separate domains are formed, including organization around PHY/DLL waveforms, division into domains following uniform management and policy rules, separation of domains with different security implementations and policies, and separation of domains by program of record. It proceeds to describe some of the obstacles to interconnectivity among different domains, and then considers what types of architectures-focusing on topology and routing-are likely to best support the many inevitably separate domains of military tactical edge network users. Core Hub-based and Mesh-based architectures are considered and compared. Since neither of these architectures is clearly more feasible or more likely to be the dominant architecture at the tactical edge, important topics for research and development are presented for the enhancement of each of them.
Sponsorship	IEEE Commun. Soc.
Starting Page	647
Ending Page	654
File Size	1629237
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769551241
DOI	10.1109/MILCOM.2013.116
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-11-18
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Peer-to-peer computing Network topology Topology Mobile computing Security Ad hoc networks Routing internetworking network domain architecture topology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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