SOA Recommendations for Disadvantaged Grids in the Tactical Domain (Recommandations de SOA concernant les reseauxdefavorises dans le domaine tactique)
Abstract
This report provides concrete recommendations, based on systematic testing and evaluation, for Tactical Level application of a subset of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based HeadQuarter (HQ)-level core services from the NATO C3 Taxonomy. The SOA paradigm is used by NATO for interoperability at (HQ) information infrastructure level. Current technologies (e.g. Web services) are not designed for tactical networks. This frustrates interoperability and integration between tactical and HQ levels and is not cost-effective. IST-118 provides recommendations for the deployment of the core services to the tactical domain, based on experiences and experiments. These recommendations support development of SOA at the tactical level, thus improving integration between tactical and HQ levels. This approach also diminishes the need to develop and implement separate HQ and tactical versions of the same functionalities, thus reducing cost of required materiel, R and D and training. This report shows the advantage of cross-layer middleware, enabling adaptation of the services communication behaviour to the special needs of tactical networks and enabling parameterization of the network to fulfil the services communication requirements, and highlights the contribution of battlefield video- and text-based services. Technology demonstration events show that we reached Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4 (close to TRL 5).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2020
- Accession Number
- AD1183677
Entities
People
- Kevin Chan
- Peter-paul Meiler
Organizations
- NATO Science and Technology Organization