An X.25 Interface to the PLRS/JTIDS Network

Author

Drucker, Harris ; Dattilo, William ; Sininger, Donald ; Tsai, Steven

Author_Institution

BDM Management Services Co., 607B Industrial Way West, Eatontown, NJ and Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ

Volume

2

fYear

1983

fDate

Oct. 31 1983-Nov. 2 1983

Firstpage

491

Lastpage

495

Abstract

The PLRS/JTIDS Hybrid (PJH) network is a position/location reporting and communication network composed of Position Location Reporting System (PLRS) User Units, Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) terminals and a net control station (NCS). A study is made of the advisability of using the commercially oriented X.25 protocol for host acccess to the PJH network. However, the military environment puts the following unique demands on an interface that are not directly supported by X.25: multiple addressing, security, precedence, classification, minimization of connector complexity and cable weight, and the desirability of a military host to address nodes internal to the network and thereby influence message routing. This paper discusses the merits and difficulties of using the X.25 interface in the military environment with respect to the above issues.

Keywords

Communication system control; Communication system operations and management; Connectors; Data communication; Delay; Military computing; Power cables; Routing; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1983. MILCOM 1983. IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC, USA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1983.4794744

Filename

4794744