• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.518-524
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• 2011

A high assurance IP encryption (HAIPE) compliant protocol accelerator is proposed for military networks consisting of red (or classified) networks and black (or unclassified) networks. The boundary between red and black sides is assumed to be protected via a HAIPE device. However, the IP layer encryption introduces challenges for bandwidth on demand satellite communication. The problems experienced by transmission control protocol (TCP) over satellites are well understood: While standard modems (on the black side) employ TCP performance enhancing proxy (PEP) which has been shown to work well, the HAIPE encryption of TCP headers renders the onboard modem's PEP ineffective. This is attributed to the fact that under the bandwidth-on-demand environment, PEP must use traditional TCP mechanisms such as slow start to probe for the available bandwidth of the link (which eliminates the usefulness of the PEP). Most implementations recommend disabling the PEP when a HAIPE device is used. In this paper, we propose a novel solution, namely broadband HAIPE-embeddable satellite communications terminal (BHeST), which utilizes dynamic network performance enhancement algorithms for high latency bandwidth-on-demand satellite links protected by HAIPE. By moving the PEP into the red network and exploiting the explicit congestion notification bypass mechanism allowed by the latest HAIPE standard, we have been able to regain PEP's desired network enhancement that was lost due to HAIPE encryption (even though the idea of deploying PEP at the modem side is not new). Our BHeST solution employs direct video broadcast-return channel service (DVB-RCS), an open standard as a means of providing bandwidth-on-demand satellite links. Another issue we address is the estimation of current satellite bandwidth allocated to a remote terminal which is not available in DVBRCS. Simulation results show that the improvement of our solution over FIX PEP is significant and could reach up to 100%. The improvement over the original TCP is even more (up to 500% for certain configurations).

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.64-73
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• 2015

최근 위성통신은 물리계층의 고속 모뎀, 링크 계층에서의 고효율 패킷처리 기술 등의 발달로 양방향 광대역 멀티미디어 통신 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 기반을 마련하였다. 그러나 긴 전송 지연시간과 유선망에 비해 여전히 높은 패킷 손실률을 갖는 위성링크 고유의 특징은 현재 통신을 위해 가장 많이 사용하는 전송계층 프로토콜인 TCP(Transmission Control Protocol)를 여전히 위성망에서 제대로 동작시키기 어렵게 만들고 있다. 이에 본고에서는 위성망에서 TCP가 갖는 문제점을 해결하기 위해 도입된 PEP(Performance Enhancing Proxy) 기술에 대해서 관련 표준문서에서부터, 다양한 PEP 구성형태, 그리고 응용계층, 전송계층, 네트워크 계층에 따라 각각 적용된 PEP 주요 기술들을 살펴보고, 더불어 해외의 주요 PEP 제품들의 특징들을 분석함으로써 PEP 관련 전반적인 기술동향을 살펴보고자 한다.