Analysis of Approaches of Impact of Electronic Warfare Means on the Network–centric Control System

Abstract

The intensive development of information and control technologies, as well as their integration into a single information space, leads to an increase in the role of such technologies in the processes of control of troops (forces) and weapons, including high-precision ones. At the same time, the electronic material base of the information infrastructure created within the concept of network-centric warfare is potentially vulnerable to electronic warfare.
 In this article, the authors analyze the approaches to the impact of electronic warfare on network-centric control systems. In the course of the study, the authors solved the following interrelated tasks: identified information restrictions on the implementation of the network-centric war concept; the prospects for the development of electronic warfare systems that are focused on disruption of the operation of network-centric systems of military control and the prospective scientific and methodological approaches to substantiate the methods of radio-electronic impact on network-centric control systems.
 In the course of this research, the authors used the basic principles of electronic warfare theory, signal theory, communication theory, queuing systems and classical methods of scientific cognition – analysis and synthesis. According to the results of the study, the following conclusions can be drawn: perspective directions for the development of radio-electronic impact, oriented on the transport layer of communication networks, can be implemented as complexes of territorially distributed means of electronic control, implementing fundamentally new methods of suppression, and special software and bookmarks software (viruses) that are introduced into the telecommunications network equipment.
 It should be noted that the use of all the above radio-electronic effects is advisable only against packet networks with advanced topology. The use of such impacts against networks with tree topology is pointless since there is a possibility of attaining the suppression effect by“classical” channel suppression.