Reservation-Based Quality of Service (QOS) in an Airborne Network

Abstract

This paper addresses the use of Resource ReSerVation Protocol-Aggregate (RSVP-AGG) at the tactical edge of the Air Force's Airborne Network (AN). Since the AN tactical edge can have different types of stub-networks accessing the AN (i.e., non-IP based legacy networks like Link 16, DiffServ based networks and IntServ based networks), RSVP-AGG offers a common access approach regardless of the differences in the networks using the AN. The paper presents a novel RSVP-AGG approach that has the advantage of decreasing the burden on the AN core links with limited bandwidth by reducing RSVP control traffic over the encrypted core. Also, the paper shows that RSVP-AGG (being a single reservation instead of multiple reservations) could be more resilient to link errors. Moreover,using RSVP-AGG over the AN core could open the door to consider the advantages of statistical multiplexing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA516553

Entities

People

  • Bruce Metcalf
  • George F. Elmasry
  • Gregory Hadynski
  • Junghoon Lee
  • Manoj Jain
  • Roy Life

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne
  • Bandwidth
  • Command And Control
  • Cryptography
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronic Mail
  • Information Operations
  • Intellectual Property
  • Military Communications
  • Multiplexing
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Radio Equipment
  • Security Protocols
  • Standards
  • Tactical Networks
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking

Technology Areas

  • Space