An Efficient Link-K Message Aggregation and Transmission Method for IP-based Tactical Networks

Yoon, Sun-Joong; Sung, Yun-Kyung; Cho, Youn-Chul; Ko, Young-Bae

Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology 2010;13(6):1064-1070.

Sun-Joong Yoon, Yun-Kyung Sung, Youn-Chul Cho, Young-Bae Ko

Ajou University

IP 기반 전술네트워크를 위한 효율적인 Link-K 메시지 통합 및 전송기법

윤선중, 성윤경, 조윤철, 고영배

아주대학교

Abstract

Korea Department of Defense has been developing Link-K, Korean Joint Tactical Datalink, to support their independent joint operations and trying to enlarge the scope of Link-K tactical message delivery to nodes in IP based tactical networks for sharing situation awareness more broadly. A Link-K tactical message size is too small to fit into an IP packet, inefficiently wasting most of the IP packet space of the low bandwidth IP-based tactical networks. This paper proposes a new Link-K tactical message aggregation and delivery method when tactical messages need to be sent to some nodes located at IP-based tactical networks. With numerical analysis and OPNET simulation studies, we prove the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method.

Key Words: Korean Joint Tactical Datalink, Link-K, Tactical Message, Aggregation and Transmission