• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.666-674
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• 2013

This paper studied about the design and implementation of tactical communication network simulator in order to obtain tactical communication network parameter, such as link capacity and routing plan, and a number of exceptional cases that may occur during actual deployment by conducting simulation of a large-scale tactical communication networks. This tactical communication network simulator provides equipment models and link models of commercial OPNET simulator for tactical communication network. In addition, 6 types of simulation scenario writings convenience functions and traffic generation models that may occur in situations of tactical communication network environment were implemented in order to enhance user friendliness. By taking advantages of SITL(System-In-The-Loop) function of OPNET, the tactical communication network simulator allows users to perform interoperability test between M&S models and actual equipment in operating simulation of tactical communication network, which is run on software. In order to confirm the functions and performance of the simulator, small-scale of tactical communication network was configured to make sure interoperability between SITL-based equipment and a large-scale tactical communication network was simulated and checked how to cope with traffic generated for each network node. As the results, we were able to confirm that the simulator is operated properly.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose schemes of blockchain utilization in tactical communication environment. The military tactical communication environment has similar characteristics with blockchain network such as distributed architecture, decentralization, and the need for data integrity. A communication node constituting a tactical communication network is constituted by a system capable of configuring and connecting a network for each node. When a communication node, having such capabilities, is configured as a node of blockchain network, various functions could be performed. In this paper, we propose utilization schemes of authentication, integrity, record management, and privilege control based blockchain technology. Functions for authentication, integrity verification, and record management need to ensure the stored data and could track history. The requirement of function's characteristics are matched to blockchain which is storing data sequentially and difficult to hack data, so that it could perform functionally and sufficiently well. Functions for authority control should be able to assign different privileges according to the state of the requestor. Smart contract will function when certain conditions are satisfied and it will be able to perform its functions by using it. In this paper, we will look over functions and utilization schemes of blockchain technology which could reliably share and synchronize data in a tactical communication environment composed of distributed network environment.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.577-585
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• 2010

The Military Tactical Communication technology for effective network-centric warfare is developing. Targeting broadband wireless transmission, core technology for connection, and Transmission technology that secure survivability under High-speed Movement environment. On the one hand, Tactical data communication system that reflects military characteristic is developing on the base of Legacy communication equipment which is used in the field. Because almost every military units in the field have used voice to communicate which lower efficiency of operation, they have made effort to Substitute voice communication which delays military Operation Tempo to digital communication. The Communications environment of troops in Forward edge of battle field area is very poor. Especially in terms of limited frequency allocation and bandwidth. Therefore, improving the efficiency of frequency is essential for Military Tactical Communication. This paper is about The Data Compression Method for increase of Efficiency in Tactical Data Communication over Legacy Radios which are UHF, VHF, HF Radio. I proposed and proved the most efficient Data Compression Method that reflects military characteristic, after analyzing the experimentation, which simulate CAS(Close Air Support mission) data transmission between Pilot and TACP.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권12B호
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• pp.1211-1218
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• 2010

OSPF(Open Shortest Path First)는 유선 통신망에서 주로 사용되는 라우팅 프로토콜로 유선 링크의 상태를 코스트로 환산하여 트래픽의 경로를 결정하는 알고리즘이며, 차세대 전술 통신망의 라우팅 프로토콜로 고려되고 있다. 그러나 기존의 OSPF는 유선망 환경을 고려하여 설계된 프로토콜이므로 노이즈, 재밍 등의 무선 전술 환경에 능동적으로 반응하지 못하는 취약점이 있다. 즉, 데이터 전달 과정에서 링크의 성능이 저하되어도 경로를 그대로 유지하여 통신의 효율성과 신뢰성을 보장하지 못한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 OSPF 비용함수를 재정의 하여 무선 전술 환경에서 네트워킹 시 효율성과 신뢰성을 높이는 것을 목표로 한다. 재정의하는 비용함수에는 네 가지 파라미터로 상대적인 전송 속도, 링크 가중치, 라우터의 이용률, 링크 평균 BER(Bit Error Rate)이 포함된다. 이 파라미터를 통하여 무선 전술환경의 특성을 반영할 수 있다. 또한, OSPF의 Hello 패킷을 개선함으로 각 기반노드의 무선 링크상태를 주기적으로 파악 할 수 있도록 하였다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안하는 OSPF가 기존의 OSPF보다 능동적으로 경로를 변경하고 네트워크를 부하를 줄여 향상된 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.469-475
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• 2009

TMMR(Tactical Multiband Multirole Radio) is one of the important equipments for TICN which is our next military tactical communication system and it supplies to the distribution of traffic of C2(Command & Control) and SA(Situation Awareness) for unit of Brigade and below. In this paper, we define the tactical needs of military communication, and evaluate MANET(Mobile Ad-hoc Network) protocol for the future digital battle-field through performance comparison with a network simulator.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.441-450
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• 2015

The tactical communications network has to be deployed rapidly at military operation area and support the communications between the military command systems and the weapon systems. For that, the frequency assignment is required for backbone wireless links of tactical communications network without frequency interferences. In this paper, we propose a frequency assignment method using net filter discrimination (NFD) and graph coloring to avoid frequency interferences. The proposed method presents frequency assignment problem of tactical communications network as vertex graph coloring problem of a weighted graph. And it makes frequency assignment sequences and assigns center frequencies to communication links according to the priority of communication links and graph coloring. The evaluation shows that this method can assign center frequencies to backbone communication links without frequency interferences. It also shows that the method can improve the frequency utilization in comparison with HTZ-warfare that is currently used by Korean Army.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2018년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.467-469
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• 2018

전술 무선통신은 네트워크 토폴로지의 가변성과 열악한 통신 환경으로 인하여 채널 간섭 및 통신단절 등의 통신장애 문제들이 종종 발생한다. 따라서 열악한 전술 환경에서 발생하는 무선통신망의 통신장애 문제를 효과적으로 극복하고, 생존성을 향상 시키는 것은 매우 중요한 과제라 할 수 있다. 본 논문은 사용자의 개입 없이 통신 장애의 상황을 특정하여 구분 짓고 보다 효과적인 솔루션을 수행하기 위한 이동통신 장비의 자동 제어 방법론에 대하여 기술 하였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.501-508
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a channel allocation algorithm of MSAP(Mobile Subscriber Access Point) and data delivery scheme exploiting the symbol level network coding. The network is comprised of TS(Tactical Switch) as a backbone node, MSAPs, and TMFTs(Tactical Multi-Function Terminal). The TS performs the channel allocation considering the communication range overlapping between the neighboring MSAPs and applies the symbol level network coding, if necessary, depending on the position of the TMFTs. Assuming the number of available antennas of TMFT and MSAP will be extended to two from one, we propose two schemes: single mode and dual mode. Through the simulation, we show that the proposed delivery scheme provides higher delivery ratio and lower delivery delay compared with the legacy store-and-forward scheme.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.317-324
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• 2009

Tactical Information Communication Network(TICN) uses both a wireless and wired network. To support mobility in battlefield environments, the application of Ad-hoc networking technology to its wireless communication has been examined. However, Ad-hoc network is faced to many security threats due to its intrinsic characteristics. Therefore, to apply the Ad-hoc networking technology to battlefield environments and TICN, an intensive study on security countermeasure must go side by side with the development of enabling technology. In this paper, we suggest an efficient key management scheme for TICN of which the Ad-hoc networking technology is applied.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2017년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.97-100
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• 2017

As part of overseas defense program of the US's Trump administration, the military allies were asked to cover partial operation costs for the weaponry deployed at the US bases in their countries. This raised the Korean government's, as well as defense industry's interest in constructing a tactical/strategic communication network and investments are being made actively. Thus, in this study, the performances of WiMAX and WLAN have been compared and a tactical/strategic communication network has been constructed for simulation by using OPNET. As a result, the simulation for the network using combat tanks was successful. An average communication distance that can be achieved by WLAN in open terrain is about 200m as it has been designed on the premise of short-range wireless communications. When the distance was increased to 1km, the tanks could not receive data. By contrast, it was able to confirm that the WiMAX-based network has allowed smooth communications at the same distance. Based on this result, it can be concluded that using WiMAX for tactical operations will have much more merit than adopting WLAN as far as the distance is concerned.