• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.2C
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• pp.173-180
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• 2012

It is important to consider saving location of message structures, structure of parser and creating method of parser generator for adopting KVMF to increase interoperability among different weapon systems. Especially, it requires to design the message parser by analyzing performance and maintenance when we adopting KVMF to previously developed weapon systems. In this paper, we propose the method of concurrent dynamic message processing for KMVF message based on KVID to support the developed and next-developed weapon systems. We show message conversion accuracy and performance effectiveness by adopting proposed method to Batallion Tactical Combat System.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.663-671
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• 2014

The Battlefield Management System(BMS) of Ground Fighting Vehicles has employed its own message format but there have been requirements of using the standard message format, KVMF. To meet these requirements, we analyzed BMS and KVMF and incorporated KVMF into BMS. In this paper, we would like to introduce our implementation of KVMF in BMS.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.349-356
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• 2015

Air Defense Command Control and Alert(ADC2A) system is a system that ensures simultaneity and integrity of air defense operations by combining sensors, weapons and Command and Control(C2) systems over a tactical network to protect forces, facilities and strategic points from enemy's air attack. Improving message processing speed is a very important factor for ADC2A, because it uses high frequency bit-processing of the Army standard KVMF message to communicate with internal and external systems. In this paper we proposed improved method of KVMF message processing for ADC2A system.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.45-58
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• 2023

KVMF(Korean Variable Message Format) 1.0 protocol is the Army's standard tactical datalink protocol that defines standard messages and communication methods to enable data communication between various weapon systems through bitwise variable message processing. The protocol has been applied to a variety of Army weapon systems over the past decade and has contributed to upgrade the Army's operational capabilities by enabling the implementation of Network Centric Warfare (NCW), the core of modern warfare. Since the KVMF 1.0 protocol was applied, new weapon systems with new technologies have been introduced over time, and new weapon systems have new messages based on the characteristics of the weapon system. As a result, compatibility problems arose due to different message versions with existing weapon systems, and it was expected that these problems would continue to emerge in the future, considering the need for continuous message revisions. Therefore, it became necessary to solve this problem, so this paper proposed a KVMF 2.0 protocol design that guarantees compatibility between forward and backward versions. In this paper, we implemented the design as SW, and confirmed that the design worked successfully by test between forward and backward versions on test environment. Therefore, when the KVMF 2.0 protocol design is applied to a weapon system, we can expect that the weapon system can be compatible with the forward and backward versions working with the existing weapon systems as well as with the future weapon systems.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.601-608
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• 2009

Interoperability is the key issue in NCW. However, old-fashioned weapon systems have low level interoperability. The representative example is BTCS. Therefore, we apply KVMF R1 to BTCS in order to improve interoperability and testify the effectiveness of how to apply without any changes in existing software. In this paper, we have proposed a message and software architecture design method for applying KVMF to developed weapon system. Finally, it is confirmed that the proposed method is superior to apply KVMF to existing weapon system in a point of verifying how to highly efficiently apply KVMF on existing weapon system.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.8
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• pp.749-759
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• 2017

The weapon system based on voice call can cause delay, error or damage to the message during the exchange of information. Furthermore, since the weapon system has a unique message format, it has limited data distribution. Therefore, a Korea Variable Message Format(KVMF) has been developed in this study to utilize a standard sized data format to guarantee the transmission quality and minimize the transmission amount. The ground tactical data link system quickly and accurately shares tactical information by incorporating a field management system that utilizes the KVMF standard message in the mobile weapon system. In this study, we examine the possibility of performing the mission immediately by recovering the state of network joining when a normal/abnormal termination situation of the battlefield management system occurs.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1045-1052
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• 2021

Modern Warfare is transforming into a Network Centric Warfare(NCW) where surveillance systems, command control systems and strike systems are interconnected with advanced IT technologies to share battlefield situations. The South Korean military is using the various tactical data links(TDL) such as Link-K, Link-16, Link-11 and KVMF depending on each military's battlefield situation. Joint Tactical Data Link System(JTDLS) is a system thar shares tactical information in near-real time between army/navy/air joint forces and additionally establishes Link-22 in Link-K, Link-16 and KVMF. In this paper, we propose the Link-22 system structure, Link-22 message analysis and the interface structure between the tactical data link processor and Link-22 to apply Link-22 to the JTDLS.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.104-112
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• 2011

During the ground operation of Korean army, the voice message is mainly used for exchanging informations related to the surveillance and reconnaissance, command and control, and precision strike. However, in order to the battlefield visualization among fighting powers participating in the ground force operation, automatic situational awareness and variable message format (VMF) for command and control are required. For securing core technologies necessary for the battlefield visualization, message standard and message handler are established through several applied researches. Besides, the VMF for equipping a weapon system is in development. In this paper, a study on the Korean variable message format (KVMF), where interoperability of integrated battle management system (BMS) is guaranteed due to performing joint, ground, and combined operations so that the situation awareness and strike system can be automated in almost real time, is presented. From the modeling and simulation (M&S) results of the message processor, delay time is varied in accordance with the number of nodes in unit platoon network, message length, and generation interval of routine messages. Therefore, it is shown that the system performance can be optimized by establishing proper network protocol for each situation.

• 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 the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.457-464
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• 2020

ROK Forces operate Link-11, Link-16 and Korean Tactical Data Link System with Link-K(JTDLS: Joint Tactical Data Link System). As the change from Link-11 to Link-22 approaches, in the JTDLS Completed Business will be added tactical data link processing such as Link-22. In this paper, we propose the data management structure for data from multiple tactical data links. Also, we simulate to find ways to process a lot of data quickly using Shared Memory, In-Memory DB, Self Development DB in DLP, and then we confirm the result.