Dynamic Forward Error Correction Coding to Avoid Detection in Airborne Tactical NetworksShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: 2024 International Conference on Military Communication and Information Systems, ICMCIS 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Here we present a novel routing protocol HDARP+ for airborne tactical networks that use directional antennas. HDARP+ extends the existing protocol HDARP (Hostile-Direction Aware Routing Protocol) by reducing the risk for detection by adversary aircraft even further. Compared to HDARP, the extension in HDARP+ introduces dynamic Forward Error Correction (FEC) coding. The FEC code is dynamic in the sense that different FEC codes, or no FEC code, will be used depending on the relative position of the receiver and adversary aircraft. We evaluate three different Reed-Solomon FEC codes based on three criteria: the ability to transmit in the presence of adversaries without being detected, the reduction of the effective communication bandwidth, and the implementation cost in terms of the sizes of lookup tables for encoding and decoding. We argue that (variations of) HDARP+ will be implemented in future airborne tactical networks. This paper was originally presented at the NATO Science and Technology Organization Symposium (ICMCIS) organized by the Information Systems Technology (IST) Panel, IST-205-RSY - the ICMCIS, held in Koblenz, Germany, 23-24 April 2024. © 2024 IEEE.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024.
Keywords [en]
avoiding detection, directional antennas, dynamic FEC, forward error correction, Reed-Solomon codes, routing, Aircraft, Aircraft detection, Block codes, Internet protocols, Optical communication, Routing protocols, Table lookup, Directional Antenna, Dynamic forward error correction, Forward error correction codes, Forward error-correction, Reed -Solomon code, Routing-protocol, Routings, Tactical network
National Category
Telecommunications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-26536DOI: 10.1109/ICMCIS61231.2024.10540797Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85195690009ISBN: 9798350373196 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-26536DiVA, id: diva2:1877200
Conference
International Conference on Military Communication and Information Systems, ICMCIS 2024, Koblenz, April 23-24 2024
Projects
Riktad COM & EW via Digital multikanal AESA
Funder
Vinnova, 2023019492024-06-252024-06-252024-06-25Bibliographically approved