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Tactical Service Mesh for Intelligent Traffic QoS Coordination over Future Tactical Network

미래 전술망의 지능적 트래픽 QoS 조율을 위한 전술 서비스 메쉬

  • Kang, Moonjoong (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology(GIST)) ;
  • Shin, Jun-Sik (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology(GIST)) ;
  • Park, Juman (The 2nd Research and Development Institute, Agency for Defense Development(ADD)) ;
  • Park, Chan Yi (The 2nd Research and Development Institute, Agency for Defense Development(ADD)) ;
  • Kim, JongWon (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology(GIST))
  • 강문중 (광주과학기술원 전기전자컴퓨터공학부) ;
  • 신준식 (광주과학기술원 전기전자컴퓨터공학부) ;
  • 박주만 (국방과학연구소 제2기술연구본부) ;
  • 박찬이 (국방과학연구소 제2기술연구본부) ;
  • 김종원 (광주과학기술원 전기전자컴퓨터공학부)
  • Received : 2019.01.31
  • Accepted : 2019.05.24
  • Published : 2019.06.05
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Abstract

As tactical networks are gradually shifting toward IP-based flexible operation for diversified battlefield services, QoS(Quality-of-Service) coordination for service differentiation becomes essential to overcome the heterogeneous and scarce networking resources limitations. QoS coordination for tactical network traffic should be able to monitor and react the dynamic changes in underlying network topology and service priorities. In this paper, by adopting the emerging cloud-native service mesh concept into tactical network context, we study the feasibility of intelligent QoS coordination by employing tactical service mesh(TSM) as an additional layer to support enhanced traffic quality monitoring and control. The additional TSM layer can leverage distributed service-mesh proxies at tactical mesh WAN(Wide Area Network) nodes so that service-aware differentiated QoS coordination can be effectively designed and integrated with TSM-assisted traffic monitoring and control. Also, by validating the feasibility of TSM layer for QoS coordination with miniaturized experimental setup, we show the potential of the proposed approach with several approximated battlefield traffics over a simulated TSM-enabled tactical network.

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Fig. 1. Tactical networks from soldier’s viewpoint[2]

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Fig. 2. Tactical WAN and LAN

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Fig. 3. Intelligent QoS coordination with traffic QoS monitor & control for tactical network

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Fig. 4. Intelligent QoS coordination with TSM layer, dedicated for QoS monitoring/control planes

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Fig. 5. Tactical mesh WAN node

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Fig. 6. Implementation and environment configuration for TSM-ready QoS monitoring

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Fig. 7. Visualization of service-aware traffic QoS monitoring data collected by TSM

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Fig. 8. Implementation and environment configuration for TSM-ready QoS control

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Fig. 9. Verification scenario for traffic conditioning of service traffic by TSM

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Fig. 10. Visualization of traffic QoS monitoring data before/after traffic conditioning by TSM

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Fig. 11. Verification scenario for differentiated routing/forwarding by TSM

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Fig. 12. Differentiated routing/forwarding only for specific “jason” by TSM

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