• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.1336-1339
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• 2008

최근, 우리 군에서는 무선을 기반으로 하는 차세대 전술통신 체계인 전술 종합 정보 통신 체계 (TICN: Tactical Information Communication Network) 구축 사업을 진행하고 있다. 이 시스템의 백본 역할을 수행하는 TICN 전달망에서의 라우팅 알고리즘은 기존 인터넷에서 사용 중인 표준 라우팅 알고리즘과는 다른 특성이 요구된다. 즉 무선전송 링크의 특성 및 재밍 등의 영향으로 링크 상태가 불안정한 상황에서도 생존성과 안정성이 요구되는 군 전술망 환경에 적합하여야 하며, TICN 전달망의 자원 효율성도 최대화할 수 있어야 한다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 기존의 인터넷 표준 라우팅 프로토콜들 중에서 네트워크 상태변화에 신속하게 대처할 수 있으며, 이미 널리 사용되고 있는 OSPF 프로토콜을 TICN 전달망에 적합한 라우팅 프로토콜이 되도록 수정하고자 한다. 이를 위해 라우팅 프로토콜의 대상 네트워크가 유선망에서 무선 전술 백본망으로 변경됨에 따라 튜닝될 필요가 있는 프로토콜 파라미터들을 추출하고, 시뮬레이션을 통해 추출한 파라미터들의 값들을 튜닝 하고자 한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.172-180
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• 2017

Korean army has been trying to construct a future tactical network in collaboration with TICN at the ground level and the next-generation military satellite system in the space level. However, due to the low bandwidth and high operational cost, the satellite system has the limitation to exchange all kind of tactical information through it. To overcome the limitation, there have been several researches to construct airborne networks. In this paper, we propose an effective interworking architecture and operation scheme between terrestrial tactical networks and aerial relay networks to counteract against the communication breaks of terrestrial terminals. And, we also propose a way to analyze its effectiveness. The experimental results show that the interworking of aerial relay networks can manage the failure situations in terrestrial tactical networks very effectively.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.8
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• pp.1057-1064
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• 2015

The tactical network is system based on wireless networking technologies that ties together surveillance reconnaissance systems, precision strike systems and command and control systems. Several alternative paths exist in the network because it is connected as a grid to improve its survivability. In addition, the network topology changes frequently as forces and combatants change their network access points while conducting operations. However, most Internet routing standards have been designed for use in stable backbone networks. Therefore, tactical networks may exhibit a deterioration in performance when these standards are implemented. In this paper, we propose Priority based Multi-Path routing with Local Optimization(PMPLO) for a tactical backbone network. The PMPLO separately manages the global and local metrics. The global metric propagates to other routers through the use of a routing protocol, and it is used for a multi-path configuration that is guaranteed to be loop free. The local metric reflects the link utilization that is used to find an alternate path when congestion occurs, and it is managed internally only within each router. It also produces traffic that has a high priority privilege when choosing the optimal path. Finally, we conducted a simulation to verify that the PMPLO can effectively distribute the user traffic among available routers.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.97-105
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• 2019

The tactical mobile ad-hoc network(MANET) consists of distributed autonomous networks between individual ground nodes, which is effective in terms of network survivability and flexibility. However, due to constraints such as limited power, terrain, and mobility, frequent link disconnection and shadow area may occur in communication. On the other hand, the satellite network has the advantage of providing a wide-area wireless link overcoming terrain and mobility, but has limited bandwidth and high-latency characteristic. In the future battlefield, an integrated network architecture for interworking multi-layer networks through a heterogeneous network gateway (HNG) is required to overcome the limitations of the existing individual networks and increase reliability and efficiency of communication. In this paper, we propose a new HNG architecture and detailed algorithm that integrates satellite network and the tactical MANET and enables reliable data transfer based on flow characteristics of traffic. The simulations validated the proposed architecture using Riverbed Modeler, a network-level simulator.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.29-38
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• 2019

With the advancement of information and communication technology, tactical networks are continuously being converted to All-IP future tactical networks that integrate all application services based on Internet protocol. Futuristic tactical mesh network is built with tactical WAN (wide area network) nodes that are inter-connected by a mesh structure. In order to guarantee QoS (quality of service) of application services, tactical service mesh (TSM) is suggested as an intermediate layer between infrastructure and application layers for futuristic tactical mesh network. The tactical service mesh requires dynamic QoS monitoring and control for intelligent QoS coordination. However, legacy networking nodes used for existing tactical networks are difficult to support these functionality due to inflexible monitoring support. In order to resolve such matter, we propose a tactical mesh WAN node as a hardware/software co-designed networking node in this paper. The tactical mesh WAN node is conceptually designed to have multi-access networking interfaces and virtualized networking switches by leveraging the DANOS whitebox server/switch. In addition, we explain how to apply eBPF-based traffic monitoring to the tactical mesh WAN node and verify the traffic monitoring feasibility for supporting QoS coordination of tactical-mesh traffic.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.109-121
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• 2010

Recently, the military of Korea has been establishing the next generation wireless tactical communication system so called Tactical Information Communication Network (TICN). A routing protocol for TICN transport networks has to be able to select a path with high survivality, reliability, and stability while accommodating as many flows as possible with minimum QoS guarantees. The OSPF(Open Short Path First) used widely is determined to be the routing protocol for TICN. With the typical deployment practices OSPF, however, it cannot satisfy the requirements of TICN. In this paper, we propose a cost function for OSPF and a way to tune the OSPF protocol parameters for the TICN transport networks. Through simulations, it is shown that the OSPF with the proposed cost function provides better performance than the OSPF in terms of both the services provided to the applications and the network resources utilization.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.285-286
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 전투무선망에서 효과적인 긴급 메시지 전송 방안에 대한 방안을 제시한다. NCW 환경에서 대대급 이하 전투부대들은 전투무전기와 전술단말기를 활용하여 아군, 적군 위치와 속성정보, 활동 정보 등을 상호간 공유하여 통합적이고 효율적인 전투를 수행해야 하지만, 낮은 대역폭과 낮은 전송속도를 사용할 수밖에 없는 전투무선망을 활용하고 있으므로, 각 노드별 메시지 전송 전송성공률을 높이기 위해 전투무선망의 특성을 반영해야 한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 전투무선망에서의 긴급 메시지(적 발견 보고, 화생방 보고 등) 전송 시 부대 운용구조를 활용하여 모든 노드에 데이터가 효과적으로 전달될 수 있는 방안을 제시한다.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.482-492
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• 2019

The naval ship consists of a variety of classes, including patrol, frigate, destroyer and landing ship. There are various means of communication between combat ships belonging to the mobile fleet, including voice network, text message network and tactical data link. The operation at the existing mobile fleet level was conducted mainly on voice and text message, and tactical data link were used mainly to share tactical information between combat ships. This study intended to design HCI for commander like as KDDX of fleet level based on tactical data link, a means of communication between ships, to secure operational control of the mobile fleet. Recently, naval ships have been developed in the organization of various sensors, weapons and tactical data links integrated into the combat management system, and this study also designed the HCI based on the tactical data links integrated in the combat management system. The purpose of this study was to secure the operational efficiency of the tactical data link based on the combat management system in operation of the mobile fleet, and to improve the capability of the fleet commander to recognize the battlefield situation awareness.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06b
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• pp.98-100
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 차세대 전술이동통신체계에서의 무선 MSAP Mesh망에서 효율적으로 인증 키를 관리하고 전술이동통신체계의 부하를 줄이는 새로운 혼합형 인증기법을 제안한다. 기존 방식에서 각 MSAP이 체계 접속을 위해서는 중앙집중형 인증기법과 분산형 인증기법을 활용할 수 있는데 각각의 문제점을 안고 있다. 즉, 중앙집중형 인증기법은 MSAP 노드의 빈번한 가입 및 탈퇴로 인한 과다한 지연 문제가 있고 분산형 인증기법은 인증에 필요한 정보를 사전에 공유해야 하는 문제점이 있다. 이러한 문제점을 보완하는 동시에 전술적인 환경에서 악의적인 MSAP 접속 거부와 네트워크 보안성을 극대화하기 위해서는 보다 효과적인 인증기법이 요구된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 미 인증된 MSAP이 EAP-TLS 기법을 기반으로 전술이동통신 네트워크 진입시 초기인증과 이웃 MSAP간의 상호인증 등 다양한 시나리오를 군의 특수한 환경에 맞추어 구체적으로 제시하고 각 인증 기법의 장 단점을 분석하여 혼합형 인증기법 적용에 타당성을 강조하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.11
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• pp.1011-1019
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• 2012

This paper presents a novel hybrid authentication scheme in the next-generation Tactical Mobile Communication Systems(TMCS) with wireless MSAP mesh networks. The existing centralized and distributed authentication methods for security between MSAPs may have their pros and cons. The centralized authentication method induces overhead from frequent MSAP association which leads to long authentication delay. On the other hand, the distributed authentication method requires initial sharing of the authentication information. Therefore, a more efficient authentication scheme is needed to protect the network from malicious MSAPs and also maximize efficiency of the network security. The proposed scheme provides a hybrid method of efficiently managing the authentication keys in the wireless MSAP mesh network to reduce the induced authentication message exchange overhead. Also, as the authentication method between MSAP and TMFT is different, a method of utilizing the ACR for handling the EAP packets is proposed. In overall, the proposed scheme provides efficient mutual authentication between MSAPs especially for tactical environments and is analyzed through performance evaluation to prove its superiority.