Client application considerations for low bandwidth communications using STANAG 5066

Author

Gillespie, A.F.R. ; Trinder, S.E. ; Brown, D.J.

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

477

Abstract

The transmission of commercial SMTP e-mail over the HF communications bearer is explicitly supported by proxy agents in the STANAG 5066 profile. This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the performance of the Compressed File Transfer Protocol (CFTP) and HF Mail Transfer Protocol (HMTP) proxy agents defined in STANAG 5066. The performance of proxy agents is then compared with the performance achieved using SMTP and other standard TCP/IP network applications with the PPP and IP clients defined in STANAG 5066. A critical comparison of the merits of the various approaches for the practical implementation of networked HF applications over STANAG 5066 in support of network centric warfare in a maritime environment is provided.

Keywords

electronic mail; marine systems; military communication; open systems; transport protocols; wireless LAN; CFTP; Compressed File Transfer Protocol; HF LAN; HF Mail Transfer Protocol; HF communications bearer; HMTP; STANAG 5066; TCP/IP network applications; WAN; client application; commercial SMTP e-mail transmission; low bandwidth communications; maritime environment; network centric warfare; open communications profile; proxy agents performance; Automatic repeat request; Bandwidth; Electronic mail; Hafnium; IP networks; Payloads; Performance analysis; Postal services; TCPIP; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2001. MILCOM 2001. Communications for Network-Centric Operations: Creating the Information Force. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7225-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2001.985841

Filename

985841