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Abstract. Battlefield communications systems should be simple, flexible and secure. The
demand for managed Quality of Service (QoS) across a diverse
range of services at varying security levels places significant strains
on traditional trunk communications models. A more flexible link-layer switching
architecture that can employ payload encryption is required. This paper
proposes a change in the way that the trunk network
should be viewed instead by seeing it as an unclassified
common service infrastructure to carry all services. Additionally, more and
more services are being sourced from the strategic network. Traditionally,
the mobile and fixed architectures do not match, but a
common approach to the underlying switching could solve this problem.
This paper recommends Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) as the protocol
to meet these requirements.
Related topics:
asynchronous transfer mode, tactical communications systems, communications systems, command systems
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