Title :
OPAL - A survivability-oriented approach to management of tactical military networks
Author :
Hui, Kin-Ping ; Pourbeik, Peyam ; George, Peter ; Phillips, Damien ; Magrath, Shane ; Kwiatkowski, Marek
Author_Institution :
Defence Sci. & Technol. Organ. (DSTO, Edinburgh, SA, Australia
Abstract :
It is vital for military networks to persist in the presence of widespread challenges (e.g., natural failures, attacks), some of them hard to predict. To achieve this, these networks not only need to be properly designed and configured from the survivability perspective, but they should be equipped with highly survivable management systems allowing the networks to effectively and efficiently respond to challenges during operations. This paper presents an experimental framework, called OPAL, to investigate strongly distributed cooperative solutions for survivability-oriented management in volatile tactical networks, such as mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). The paper first describes OPAL´s major concepts: Life Signs, Network Awareness and Network Hardening. Then, the current experimental implementation of OPAL is presented, followed by conclusion and an outline of further work.
Keywords :
military communication; mobile ad hoc networks; telecommunication network management; telecommunication network reliability; MANET; network awareness; network hardening; network management; survivable management systems; tactical military networks; Ad hoc networks; Bandwidth; Decision making; Monitoring; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Topology; Autonomous Network Control and Management; Survivability; Tactical Networks; Topology Control; Traffic Monitoring;
Conference_Titel :
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE, 2011 - MILCOM 2011
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0079-7
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.2011.6127450