Comparative Review of Commercial vs Tactical Wireless Networks

Elmasry

military tactical networks models interfaces protocol stack

@article{elmasry:ieee-comm2010,
  title={Comparative Review of Commercial vs Tactical Wireless Networks},
  author={George F. Elmasry},
  journal={{IEEE} Communications},
  year={2010},
  month={October},
  volume={48},
  number={10},
  pages={54--59},
}

[ Overview slides ]

Starting from similar places, commercial wireless technology and deployment has vastly outpaced military

• Innovation, competition stifled by military directly conducting solitary, stovepiped, complex projects
• Military should have instead defined standard interfaces, architectures/models, and let developers go at it on their own, largely using their own funds

Model of military networks, focus on security domain model/architecture

• Interface locations among layers

Good, detailed example of military network structure: