Title
Characterizing routing with radio-to-router information in an airborne network
Abstract
The current generation of long-range, high capacity, military radios are stove-piped systems that work well in a homogeneous environment, but require significant setup and configuration to interoperate with other radio systems. Each radio provides a subset of disparate link information in nonstandard interfaces and has built-in home-grown or industry-based routers running potentially different routing protocols. In a heterogeneous radio system airborne environment, wireless link characteristics change rapidly, often requiring direct link feedback from the radio to make routing decisions. In recent years, there has been a number of work in developing a common radio-to-router interface that standardizes a subset of per-link information to pass to the network layer for use in dynamic MANET routing. While simulations and emulation tests can provide a baseline for how systems will perform, field-tests are crucial to demonstrate capabilities in real-world operating environments. In this paper, we present measurement results from a field test involving three airborne and two ground assets with various radio systems that test an implementation of RFC4938, a radio-to-router interface protocol, and its interaction with a modified OSPFv3 routing protocol to support dynamic link metrics and OSPF cost generation. The assets participated in the exercise formed a high capacity, dynamically routed aerial IP backbone made of heterogeneous radio technologies over 250 nautical miles (Nm), allowing the passing of military operational traffic.1
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/MILCOM.2011.6127607
MILCOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
ip networks,mobile ad hoc networks,routing protocols,telecommunication traffic,rfc4938,aerial ip backbone,airborne network,disparate link information,dynamic manet routing,homogeneous environment,military operational traffic.1,military radio system,modified ospfv3 routing protocol,radio-to-router information,radio-to-router interface protocol,stove-piped systems,radio frequency,dynamic routing,servers,availability,routing protocol,measurement,routing,potential difference
Hazy Sighted Link State Routing Protocol,Link-state routing protocol,Dynamic Source Routing,Static routing,Computer science,Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol,Computer network,Wireless Routing Protocol,Routing protocol,Zone Routing Protocol
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2155-7578
978-1-4673-0079-7
15
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.79
4
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bow-Nan Cheng114227.22
randy charland2193.47
p christensen3152.79
a coyle4152.79
edward kuczynski5153.13
stephen m mcgarry6152.79
Igor Pedan7254.33
Leonid Veytser8569.79
James Wheeler9417.76