Pub Date : 2016-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496562
C. Barz, Christoph Fuchs, J. Kirchhoff, Julia Niewiejska, H. Rogge
In this paper, we present novel approaches to routing in tactical networks. We combine recent advances in OLSR development regarding modularization, scalability, extensibility, and metrics with a node architecture concept based on radio and router separation adopted to tactical networks. This node architecture consists of a single router with several external radios acting as wireless bridges and connecting to the router via standard Ethernet. Furthermore, we propose the use of our Directional Airtime (DAT) routing metric that is suitable for the heterogeneous link characteristics often found in tactical networks. In addition, we present some enhanced features unique to our implementation that include means to increase the self-configuration capabilities in IPv4, IPv6, and dual-stack configurations. For the protocol evaluation we used a physical testbed consisting of over 20 nodes implementing our tactical node design. We propose the use of this architecture in tactical networks in order to improve route selection, increase scalability and simplify network administration.
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Pub Date : 2016-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496561
J. Pagé, J. Dricot
Mobile communications have grown exponentially these last few years leading to an increasing demand. Software-Defined Networking appears to be a promising technology in order to provide flexible Quality of Service and very low latency. By modifying the 4G LTE architecture and integrating OpenFlow (SDN protocol) towards the 5G architecture, this new architecture promises to fulfill the requirements and to achieve better performances while participating to the network functions virtualization.
{"title":"Software-defined networking for low-latency 5G core network","authors":"J. Pagé, J. Dricot","doi":"10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496561","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile communications have grown exponentially these last few years leading to an increasing demand. Software-Defined Networking appears to be a promising technology in order to provide flexible Quality of Service and very low latency. By modifying the 4G LTE architecture and integrating OpenFlow (SDN protocol) towards the 5G architecture, this new architecture promises to fulfill the requirements and to achieve better performances while participating to the network functions virtualization.","PeriodicalId":103155,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133023413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496567
C. Tsigros, T. Gilles, M. Piette
The safety of personnel is of a major concern when using and manipulating hotwire electric detonators. A lot of publications exist regarding the influence of electric fields on electric detonators. Most of them give safety distances in function of the E.I.R.P. (Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power) taking into account several hypotheses, like the maximum electric fieldstrength in the presence of which the detonator is safe, related to the MNFS (Maximum No-Fire Stimulus) and the dipole configuration of the electric detonator wiring. To our knowledge all the standards and guides, military and civil, published up to now take as the worst case for wiring the dipole configuration (with the exception of loop and other antennas without further details). The present paper establishes that the worst case is rather when the wiring is arranged as a V-antenna with an aperture angle between the detonator wires of about 20°. When the angle is close to about 20° the current in the hotwire is higher than in the dipole configuration and reduce the safety margin of demining personnel.
{"title":"Radiated radio-frequency hazards with electric detonators: Influence of wiring configuration, dipole vs V-antenna","authors":"C. Tsigros, T. Gilles, M. Piette","doi":"10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496567","url":null,"abstract":"The safety of personnel is of a major concern when using and manipulating hotwire electric detonators. A lot of publications exist regarding the influence of electric fields on electric detonators. Most of them give safety distances in function of the E.I.R.P. (Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power) taking into account several hypotheses, like the maximum electric fieldstrength in the presence of which the detonator is safe, related to the MNFS (Maximum No-Fire Stimulus) and the dipole configuration of the electric detonator wiring. To our knowledge all the standards and guides, military and civil, published up to now take as the worst case for wiring the dipole configuration (with the exception of loop and other antennas without further details). The present paper establishes that the worst case is rather when the wiring is arranged as a V-antenna with an aperture angle between the detonator wires of about 20°. When the angle is close to about 20° the current in the hotwire is higher than in the dipole configuration and reduce the safety margin of demining personnel.","PeriodicalId":103155,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130199727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496576
M. Borowski
Assured security is the desirable feature of modern cryptography. A one-time pad cipher may be used to ensure perfect (unconditional) security. There are many ciphers and other cryptographic transformations, which are not perfect, but ensure conditional security adequate to needs. All cryptosystems require keys and other crypto materials. A hardware generator is the best source of random bit sequences used in production of keys for special cryptosystems. Military Communication Institute has developed a generator, which can produce binary random sequences with the potential output rate of 100 Mbit/s. It gives us the capability to build an efficient key generation equipment for cryptosystems rely on the OTP cipher, as well as for cryptosystems based on symmetric or asymmetric transformations, where many of relatively short keys are needed.
{"title":"The infinite source of random sequences for classified cryptographic systems","authors":"M. Borowski","doi":"10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496576","url":null,"abstract":"Assured security is the desirable feature of modern cryptography. A one-time pad cipher may be used to ensure perfect (unconditional) security. There are many ciphers and other cryptographic transformations, which are not perfect, but ensure conditional security adequate to needs. All cryptosystems require keys and other crypto materials. A hardware generator is the best source of random bit sequences used in production of keys for special cryptosystems. Military Communication Institute has developed a generator, which can produce binary random sequences with the potential output rate of 100 Mbit/s. It gives us the capability to build an efficient key generation equipment for cryptosystems rely on the OTP cipher, as well as for cryptosystems based on symmetric or asymmetric transformations, where many of relatively short keys are needed.","PeriodicalId":103155,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134570306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496584
A. Diefenbach, T. Ginzler, Sam McLaughlin, J. Sliwa, Thorsten Lampe, Christoph Prasse
The service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm is increasingly applied to the armed forces' IT infrastructures. However, existing SOA implementations tend to create increased demand on network resources and are thus not ideally suited for the disadvantaged networks of the tactical battlefield. Facing these disadvantages, we propose a tactical service infrastructure (TSI) which is currently being shaped in the TACTICS project with different European partners. In this paper we present our architecture which combines promising techniques such as cross-layering, delay-tolerant networking, and store-and-forward transport to overcome the issues faced when propagating SOA to the tactical military world.
{"title":"TACTICS TSI architecture: A European reference architecture for tactical SOA","authors":"A. Diefenbach, T. Ginzler, Sam McLaughlin, J. Sliwa, Thorsten Lampe, Christoph Prasse","doi":"10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496584","url":null,"abstract":"The service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm is increasingly applied to the armed forces' IT infrastructures. However, existing SOA implementations tend to create increased demand on network resources and are thus not ideally suited for the disadvantaged networks of the tactical battlefield. Facing these disadvantages, we propose a tactical service infrastructure (TSI) which is currently being shaped in the TACTICS project with different European partners. In this paper we present our architecture which combines promising techniques such as cross-layering, delay-tolerant networking, and store-and-forward transport to overcome the issues faced when propagating SOA to the tactical military world.","PeriodicalId":103155,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126187708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496549
J. Romanik, A. Krasniewski, E. Golan
This paper describes the performance enhancements of the routing mechanism for mobile ad-hoc networks. The presented solution is based on the proactive Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol. A new method was introduced to calculate the node performance metric with respect to the local resources, i.e., the battery level and the available bandwidth. This metric is reflected by the Willingness value disseminated by each node running OLSR and used to select Multi Point Relays (MPRs). Simulation results demonstrate that the advantages of the solution are better network reliability and increased lifetime.
{"title":"RESA-OLSR: RESources-aware OLSR-based routing mechanism for mobile ad-hoc networks","authors":"J. Romanik, A. Krasniewski, E. Golan","doi":"10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496549","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the performance enhancements of the routing mechanism for mobile ad-hoc networks. The presented solution is based on the proactive Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol. A new method was introduced to calculate the node performance metric with respect to the local resources, i.e., the battery level and the available bandwidth. This metric is reflected by the Willingness value disseminated by each node running OLSR and used to select Multi Point Relays (MPRs). Simulation results demonstrate that the advantages of the solution are better network reliability and increased lifetime.","PeriodicalId":103155,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124298962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496556
Manas Pradhan, Daniel Ota
With the proliferation of new and improved sensors for military and civilian vehicles, the challenges for integrating the sensors, retrieving and processing data from them have become more complex. Typically, these sensors come with APIs as specified by the manufacturer and hence integrating newer sensors on the existing and newer platforms as well as interoperability with other platform sub-systems is highly taxing. Also, these sensors open the realm of possibilities for further automation of vehicles. Types and levels of automation are a big challenge as to how much automation is possible and should be allowed, and how to effectively use the sensors for automation and informing the vehicle crew. The NATO Generic Vehicle Architecture (NGVA) proposes an open architecture approach to land vehicle platform design and integration and standardises the interfaces and protocols for military vehicle systems integration. However, the NGVA does not specify any feedback mechanisms exploiting the available sensor data to support the vehicle crew. In this paper, we present a simple crew assistance system which integrates NGVA-compliant sensors and includes an adaptable rule-based interface for sensor data processing. This crew assistance system takes into consideration human factors such as human cognitive and physical workload and informs the crew members about ongoing critical events derived from available sensor data using visual, audio and haptic feedbacks in the form of alarms to increase their Situational Awareness by raising alarms on detection of specific events and making intelligent future predictions.
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Pub Date : 2016-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496550
M. Bauduin, S. Massar, F. Horlin
Because of the small energy available aboard a satellite, the power amplifier must work with a restricted power supply which limits its maximum output power. To ensure a sufficient signal-to-noise power ratio (SNR) at the receiving side, the amplifier must work close to the saturation point. This is power efficient but, unfortunately, adds non-linear distortions in the communication channel. Several algorithms have been proposed to equalize this non-linear channel. The most widely used in the literature is the baseband Volterra filter. Recently, the Echo State Network (ESN), coming from the artificial neural network field, has been shown to perform equally well. To compensate for this channel, both equalizers adapt their coefficients with the help of a training sequence in order to recover the transmitted constellation points. We will show that, the usual detection, based on Euclidean distances, is no longer optimal. The aim of this paper is to first propose a new detection criterion which meets with the Maximum Likelihood (ML) criterion. Secondly, we will propose a modification of the training reference points to improve the performances of these equalizers and make the detection based on Euclidean distances optimal again. This last solution can offer a significant reduction of the Bit Error Rate (BER) without increasing the equalizers complexity. Only the new training reference points must be evaluated.
{"title":"Receiver design for non-linear satellite channels: Equalizer training and symbol detection on the compressed constellation","authors":"M. Bauduin, S. Massar, F. Horlin","doi":"10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496550","url":null,"abstract":"Because of the small energy available aboard a satellite, the power amplifier must work with a restricted power supply which limits its maximum output power. To ensure a sufficient signal-to-noise power ratio (SNR) at the receiving side, the amplifier must work close to the saturation point. This is power efficient but, unfortunately, adds non-linear distortions in the communication channel. Several algorithms have been proposed to equalize this non-linear channel. The most widely used in the literature is the baseband Volterra filter. Recently, the Echo State Network (ESN), coming from the artificial neural network field, has been shown to perform equally well. To compensate for this channel, both equalizers adapt their coefficients with the help of a training sequence in order to recover the transmitted constellation points. We will show that, the usual detection, based on Euclidean distances, is no longer optimal. The aim of this paper is to first propose a new detection criterion which meets with the Maximum Likelihood (ML) criterion. Secondly, we will propose a modification of the training reference points to improve the performances of these equalizers and make the detection based on Euclidean distances optimal again. This last solution can offer a significant reduction of the Bit Error Rate (BER) without increasing the equalizers complexity. Only the new training reference points must be evaluated.","PeriodicalId":103155,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124923889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496572
J. Jarmakiewicz, K. Parobczak, K. Maslanka
The paper presents the Internet of Nano Things operating in the telemedicine services chain. It includes analysis of systems for acquisition, processing and distribution of medical information covered in international publications. The telemedicine standards and the status of research and development of sensor and nanosensor networks were reviewed, and development directions for the discussed issues were indicated. Telemedicine could be successfully implemented in modern combat theatre scenarios. The analyses are supported with results of tests of a nanosensor network functioning in human circulatory system. Characteristic features of losses in the sent messages and delays in delivery of medical information to nanointerfaces at the interface points with BANs and WANS were examined.
{"title":"On the Internet of Nano Things in healthcare network","authors":"J. Jarmakiewicz, K. Parobczak, K. Maslanka","doi":"10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496572","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the Internet of Nano Things operating in the telemedicine services chain. It includes analysis of systems for acquisition, processing and distribution of medical information covered in international publications. The telemedicine standards and the status of research and development of sensor and nanosensor networks were reviewed, and development directions for the discussed issues were indicated. Telemedicine could be successfully implemented in modern combat theatre scenarios. The analyses are supported with results of tests of a nanosensor network functioning in human circulatory system. Characteristic features of losses in the sent messages and delays in delivery of medical information to nanointerfaces at the interface points with BANs and WANS were examined.","PeriodicalId":103155,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127721183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-23DOI: 10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496560
James Nightingale, Qi Wang, J. A. Calero, Ian Owens, F. T. Johnsen, T. H. Bloebaum, M. Manso
Today's “connected soldier” is both the source of and destination for electronically transmitted data used by an ever growing range of battlefield information services. In much the same way as the demand for new video services has driven innovation in the consumer domain, the acquisition and dissemination of high resolution Full Motion Video (FMV), either for surveillance and intelligence gathering purposes or to provide immediate situational awareness, is becoming an increasingly important component of NATO's C3 collaborative working taxonomy. However, the bandwidth-intensive, delay and loss intolerant nature of high resolution FMV transmission means that there are still challenges in transmitting over disconnected, intermittent and limited (DIL) networks such as those often found in tactical edge radio networks. This paper proposes a robust video streaming service, as part of a service oriented architecture for DIL tactical networks, that is based on the newest H.265 video encoding standards. The proposed service uses H.265 specific unequal error protection and selective packet dropping to ensure that the most important packets (in terms of image quality and decoding robustness) of a video are successfully delivered. The results of a comprehensive empirical evaluation show that the proposed video streaming service delivers a video quality improvement of up to 2.1 dB Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) over H.265 streamed with no UEP support. Additionally, it also demonstrated that the H.265 proposed service requires an average of 39% less bandwidth than the current H.264 video encoding service recommended in STANAG 4609, while delivering video of a similar perceptual quality.
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