Title
Network performance impact of access control policies in Tactical Wireless Networks
Abstract
Tactical Wireless Networks (TWN) are a cornerstone of military communications in deployed environments. In TWNs bandwidth and network resources are extremely limited; efficient security mechanisms must be considered as networks become exposed to multinational access, influence and composition as well as increasingly complex security protocols. The communication burden of the WSN Authorization Specification Language (WASL) access control policies on an Enhanced Position Location Reporting Service network is analyzed for three needlines: Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA), Dynamically Allocated Permanent Virtual Circuits (DAP), and Multiple Source Group (MSG). Results determined that CSMA needlines quickly exhausted resources as nodes vied for transmission time; shorter delay times were experienced but suffered greater packet losses. The DAP needlines generally performed very well. The virtual circuits allowed data to be transmitted reliably resulting in a high completion rate with moderate to extreme delay times depending on resource contention. In small networks or networks with few sources, multiple MSG shares could be used to increase guaranteed bandwidth. The traffic model applied to the MSG network was well suited for this and had high completion rates for messages. However, as the number available of shares dwindled, delay and communication loss increased dramatically.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/MILCOM.2012.6415826
MILCOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
authorisation,carrier sense multiple access,cryptographic protocols,military communication,specification languages,telecommunication security,telecommunication traffic,csma,dap,msg network,twn bandwidth,wasl,wsn authorization specification language,access control policy,communication loss,delay time,dynamically allocated permanent virtual circuit,enhanced position location reporting service network,multinational access,multiple source group,network performance,network resource,packet loss,security mechanism,security protocol,tactical wireless network,traffic model,transmission time,access control,coalition networks,cyber security,multinational networks
Wireless network,Computer science,Network packet,Multi-frequency time division multiple access,Computer network,Military communications,Virtual circuit,Network Access Control,Channel access method,Network performance
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2155-7578
978-1-4673-1729-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stout, W.M.S.100.34
Baldwin, R.O.200.34