• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.29-38
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• 2019

정보통신 기술의 발전으로 응용 서비스들을 IP(Internet protocol) 기반으로 통합하는 All-IP 기반 미래형 전술망으로의 전환이 지속적으로 진행되고 있다. 이러한 변화에 대응하기 위해 전술 WAN 노드들이 메쉬구조로 연결된 미래형 전술메쉬망에서 응용 서비스의 QoS(quality of service) 보장을 위해, 인프라 계층과 응용 서비스 계층 사이에 존재하는 전술 서비스 메쉬(tactical service mesh) 계층을 도입하는 것을 시도하는 제안이 있다. 하지만 기존 전술망을 구성하는 폐쇄형 네트워킹 박스들과 정적인 QoS 관제도구들은 전술 서비스 메쉬 계층에서 요구하는 지능형 QoS 조율을 위한 동적 QoS 관제를 지원하는 것이 어려운 상황이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 SDN/NFV 기반 DANOS 화이트박스 서버스위치를 기반으로 다중-액세스 네트워킹 인터페이스와 가상화된 네트워킹 스위치를 포함하도록 하드웨어/소프트웨어 통합 설계한 전술메쉬 WAN 노드를 구성하는 방안을 제안하고 이를 개념화 수준에서 설계하여 제시한다. 또한 설계한 전술메쉬 WAN 노드에 eBPF 기반의 트래픽 모니터링 방식을 연계하는 방안을 제안하고, 이를 통해 전술 트래픽의 QoS 조율을 지원하는 트래픽 모니터링이 가능함을 검증한다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.369-381
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• 2019

As tactical networks are gradually shifting toward IP-based flexible operation for diversified battlefield services, QoS(Quality-of-Service) coordination for service differentiation becomes essential to overcome the heterogeneous and scarce networking resources limitations. QoS coordination for tactical network traffic should be able to monitor and react the dynamic changes in underlying network topology and service priorities. In this paper, by adopting the emerging cloud-native service mesh concept into tactical network context, we study the feasibility of intelligent QoS coordination by employing tactical service mesh(TSM) as an additional layer to support enhanced traffic quality monitoring and control. The additional TSM layer can leverage distributed service-mesh proxies at tactical mesh WAN(Wide Area Network) nodes so that service-aware differentiated QoS coordination can be effectively designed and integrated with TSM-assisted traffic monitoring and control. Also, by validating the feasibility of TSM layer for QoS coordination with miniaturized experimental setup, we show the potential of the proposed approach with several approximated battlefield traffics over a simulated TSM-enabled tactical network.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.344-358
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• 2011

Wireless tactical network (WTN) is the most important present-day technology enabling modern network centric warfare. It inherits many features from WMNs, since the WTN is based on existing wireless mesh networks (WMNs). However, it also has distinctive characteristics, such as hierarchical structures and tight QoS (Quality-of-Service) requirements. Little research has been conducted on hierarchical protocols to support various QoS in WMN. We require new protocols specifically optimized for WTNs. Control packets are generally required to find paths and reserve resources for QoS requirements, so data throughput is not degraded due to overhead. The fundamental solution is to adopt topology aggregation, in which a low tier node aggregates and simplifies the topology information and delivers it to a high tier node. The overhead from control packet exchange can be reduced greatly due to decreased information size. Although topology aggregation is effective for low overhead, it also causes the inaccuracy of topology information; thus, incurring low QoS support capability. Therefore, we need a new topology aggregation algorithm to achieve high accuracy. In this paper, we propose a new aggregation algorithm based on star topology. Noting the hierarchical characteristics in military and hierarchical networks, star topology aggregation can be used effectively. Our algorithm uses a limited number of bypasses to increase the exactness of the star topology aggregation. It adjusts topology parameters whenever it adds a bypass. Consequently, the result is highly accurate and has low computational complexity.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2019

With the rapid evolution of communication technology, it became possible to overcome the spatial and temporal limitations faced by humans to some extent. Furthermore, the quality of personal life was revolutionized with the emergence of the personal communication device commonly known as the smart phone. In terms of defense networks, however, due to restrictions from the military and security perspectives, the use of smart phones has been prohibited and controlled in the army; thus, they are not being used for any defense strategy purposes as yet. Despite the current consideration of smart phones for military communication, due to the difficulties of network configuration and the high cost of the necessary communication devices, the main tools of communication between soldiers are limited to the use of flag, voice or hand signals, which are all very primitive. Although these primitive tools can be very effective in certain cases, they cannot overcome temporal and spatial limitations. Likewise, depending on the level of the communication skills of each individual, communication efficiency can vary significantly. As the term of military service continues to be shortened, however, types of communication of varying efficiency depending on the levels of skills of each individual newly added to the military is not desirable at all. To address this problem, it is essential to prepare an intuitive network configuration that facilitates use by soldiers in a short period of time by easily configuring the strategy network at a low cost while maintaining its security. Therefore, in this article, the author proposes a Zigbee-based local strategic network by using Opnet and performs a simulation accordingly.