Internetworking in the Military Environment,

Abstract

The increasing requirement for data communications in the military environment and the heterogeneous nature of the network technologies and protocols involved are highlighted. The main section of the paper discusses how the design of a military internet architecture is influenced by the military requirements especially that of survivability. Comparison with the civilian PTT approach to internetworking shows that while there are economic advantages to using civilian international standards where possible, these standards do not satisfy the military requirements. In particular the strategies for routing in a heavily changed network environment and addressing hosts that migrate from one network to another must form an integral part of the overall architectural design. This results in gateways whose routing tables have a finer degrees of detail of the internet topology than is usually required but which do not contain connection orientated information. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA122673

Entities

People

  • A. S. Bates
  • B. H. Davies

Organizations

  • Royal Signals and Radar Establishment

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Communication Networks
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Links
  • Data Transmission
  • Digital Communications
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Packet Switching
  • Transport Protocols

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design