Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network and its application in military communications

Abstract

With the gradual deepening and development of modern military warfare towards Network Centric Warfare (NCW), the performance of network protocols will play an important role. However, the popular network protocols based on end-to-end is not suited for military communication networks, which is long/variable delay, high error rates and greatly heterogeneous. Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) is a new type of network architecture aiming at the network scenes which connection is periodic, intermittent, and/or prone to disruptions. Two application modes in military communications will be presented after the introduction of the main features of DTN network. At the end of paper, the security of DTN technology will be analyzed detailed.