Black/white packet service: encrypted IP video over GBS

The global broadcast service (GBS) provides a worldwide, high-capacity, one-way transmission of classified and unclassified video, imagery, and other information as required to support joint military forces in garrison, in transit, and in theater. GBS enables real-time information product delivery to the Warfighter by providing satellite resources that are shared based on combatant commanders´ priorities, operational locations, and platform capabilities of the deployed users. Over the last several years, dissemination of near-real time unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) video has emerged as a major delivery capability of the global broadcast service architecture. This paper presents the technologies and techniques used for encrypting the broadcast of unclassified and classified video over GBS using commercially available IP-based video content processing and encryption products. Several prototype architectures have been designed to provide type-I encryption (Black Packet) and type-II encryption (White Packet) for classified and unclassified IP video products sent over the GBS broadcast. Evolutionary approaches for integrating the video encryption prototype architectures into the current ATM-based and future IP-based GBS system architecture are also outlined.