Network Communications Analysis
Abstract
Threats to communications systems come from a combination of sources today from electromagnetic, cyber, and kinetic to name a few. Because DoD communication systems are highly distributed, the ability to rapidly model, measure, and manage these threats in the context of missions being conducted is critical. In order to accomplish this approach, a combination of new methods must be developed, including automated and flexible methods in continuous integration and delivery of communications software, virtualized and interoperable communications layers, which can rapidly shift between the DoD and commercial systems, detailed ability to model the interactions between these components, and flexible hardware solutions that can absorb a wide variety of communications protocols and techniques. Additionally, machine learning methods that enable rapid assessment and reconfiguration of communications infrastructure are of interest. The Network Communications Capability Program (NCCP) will endeavor to accomplish the objectives for networking and communication through three areas of research. The first area is methods for interoperable composition of communications software stacks. Such methods will enable standard components from physical, networking, and applications layers to be dynamically composed, tested, and deployed to a wide variety of communications platforms across terrestrial, maritime, airborne, and space communications and networking applications. These components will be able to be modelled and composed using standard techniques that enable verification and validation of performance as well as resilience and affordable production through automation and machine learning. The second area is development, augmentation, and leveraging of hardware communications platforms that allow a wide variety of networking and communications protocols. These platforms should be able to accommodate many types of missions and applications, information services for software defined networking and control plane management, and physical layer implementations with broadband high speed flexible physical layers that support wireless and optical solutions, both the DoD and commercial. Additionally, these hardware platforms should be able to accommodate measurement and assessment of the status of communication functions and mission performance. The third area of the program enables modeling of communications systems and platforms that incorporate the ability to assess real time data from the communications system and compare it with regions of system performance with respect to latency and security of pre-determined system configurations. This area will make use of methods in model based systems engineering, as well as methods in verification and validation, and employ such techniques used in complex systems management including online models of systems performance.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- 663_0603662D8Z_3_0400_PB_2024
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