An Intelligent Model to Quantify the Robustness of Tactical Systems to Unplanned Link Disconnections

Loevenich, Johannes; Sergeev, Aleksandr; Rettore, Paulo H. L.; Lopes, Roberto Rigolin F.

doi:10.1109/drcn53993.2022.9758021

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“…Many studies reported in the literature have proposed military systems such as middlewares, brokers, or proxies to adapt the user data flow to the network constraints and challenges regarding resource-constrained radio devices in terms of buffer size, modulation, and power-constraints [7]- [18]. Most of these investigations executed experiments in real test-beds or in emulated networks, using tools such as OPNET, NS 2 and 3, Omnet++, Net Emulator, EMANE, and Mininet.…”

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“…Recent literature often uses static or periodic changes, reducing the test to a specific set of changes/scenarios, making the evaluation of the systems restricted to these contexts [4]- [18]. Moreover, most of the literature has limited test scenario characterization, which is essential to ensure that the experiments are quantifying the performance bounds of the military systems.…”

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TNT: A Tactical Network Test Platform to Evaluate Military Systems Over Ever-Changing Scenarios

2022

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This paper addresses the challenge of testing military systems and applications over different communication scenarios with both network conditions and user data flows changing independently. We assume that systems developed to handle ever-changing communication scenarios are more likely to be reliable and robust during real military operations. Therefore, we propose the Tactical Network Test (TNT) platform to automate the evaluation of military systems and applications over real military radios using a reproducible test methodology. TNT has four main goals (i) the creation of QoS-constrained data flows; (ii) the execution of models to change network conditions; (iii) the automation of experiments to quantify the performance of military systems over ever-changing communication scenarios; and (iv) the monitoring of quantitative metrics and performing data analysis. Our platform was used to execute experiments in a VHF network by sending uniformly distributed data flows during seven different communication scenarios, either generated by a stochastic model or mobility models. The experimental results are used to discuss the military system's performance by quantitative analysis using network metrics, and the test scenario characterization using mobility metrics.

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