Title :
Approaches and requirements for tactical SATCOM ATM integration
Author :
Marshall, James W. ; Le, Anh Q.
Author_Institution :
Mitre Corp., USA
Abstract :
Military procurement philosophy is currently evolving toward the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products to reduce cost to the taxpayer and to provide military users with advanced technology. Meanwhile, commercial asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) products are being developed and implemented in commercial communications networks. This commercial technology is rapidly progressing toward international standardization. Furthermore, with promises to offer multimedia services and potential interoperation among different communications networks by multiplexing all offered traffic statistically, ATM could provide a significant enhancement to tactical communications services and improve satellite resource utilization efficiency. This paper develops and compares several approaches for integrating ATM technology into the tactical SATCOM networks. The paper also identifies requirements including forward error correction, automatic repeat requests (ARQ) and congestion controls for the integrated tactical SATCOM ATM (TSA) network
Keywords :
asynchronous transfer mode; automatic repeat request; forward error correction; internetworking; military communication; multimedia communication; standardisation; switching networks; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication networks; telecommunication traffic; ARQ; ATM products; ATM technology; automatic repeat requests; commercial asynchronous transfer mode; commercial communications networks; commercial off the shelf products; commercial technology; congestion control; forward error correction; integrated tactical SATCOM ATM; international standardization; interoperation; military procurement; multimedia services; satellite communication; satellite resource utilization efficiency; statistical multiplexing; tactical SATCOM ATM integration; tactical SATCOM networks; tactical communications services; traffic; Artificial satellites; Asynchronous transfer mode; Automatic repeat request; Communication networks; Communication system traffic control; Costs; Forward error correction; Procurement; Resource management; Standardization;
Conference_Titel :
Military Communications Conference, 1995. MILCOM '95, Conference Record, IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2489-7
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.1995.483301
