Reconfigurable radio systems for interoperability in a multi-national environment

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1 Reconfigurable radio systems for interoperability in a multi-national environment Dr Michael Street Technology and Innovation Manager Service Strategy 1 NATO UNCLASSIFIED 1

2 AAAAAAAAGR! (Average Annual Growth Rates) Server workloads: 10% AAGR Storage capacity: 50% AAGR Power costs: 20% AAGR Network bandwidth: 35% AAGR Mobile data: 60% AAGR Budgets : 0% AAGR? The demand for mobile data is increasing rapidly, for military and civilian users 2 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

3 Delivering C4ISR Capabilities Strategic Concept Active Engagement Modern Defence Crisis Management Cooperative Security Collective Defence Political Guidance NATO Defence Planning Process Urgent Operational Needs International Security Assistance Force, Operation Unified Protector, Kosovo Force Critical Capabilities Federated Mission Networking Missile Defence Cyber Defence Air C2 Bi-SC AIS Joint Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance All operations and capabilities rely on reliable communications 3 NATO UNCLASSIFIED 3

4 NATO C3 Taxonomy NDPP Vision BPAAS Functional Area Information Services Vision SAAS Core Services Vision PAAS 4 NATO UNCLASSIFIED Infrastructure Vision IAAS Communications (blue layer) underpins all higher level services (purple/orange), applications (grey) and ultimately functions (red/blue).

5 The problem Military operations need more data, to more places, with more mobility Demand for military radio communications is rising Radio spectrum is finite. Hard limit on throughput available into a deployed operation and between mobiles Spectrum is used for many purposes Comms, sensors, EW, ELINT Maximise use of the radio spectrum through Generating less traffic Proxies to reduce IP overhead Efficient, adaptive waveforms Coordinated management Appropriate radio network topologies Opportunistic use of spectrum The demand for mobile data is increasing. Solutions need to be interoperable you cannot overrule the laws of physics 5 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

6 Mobility for mobile forces Common authoritative data sources Different detail, presentation, telecoms Applications and supporting services must communicate Service management and control Improving telecoms for mobile forces Improve spectrum utilisation Waveforms (SDR), freq management (CR), efficient apps Users need to access authoritative data sources while mobile. This requires more efficient, interoperable waveforms. 6 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

7 Challenges Operations are Multi-national Users and their equipment are multi-national as seen on the next slide. Interoperability, standards and implementation needs to be multinational too. 7 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

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9 Existing Waveform Standards VLF: Very long range but very low capacity 10s bps Works to submerged submarines Standard to be enhanced for capacity HF: Long range but low capacity several kbps Standards defined covering land, air and maritime use UHF: Air ground air 10s of kbps Standards (SATURN) well defined but data channel not used SATCOM: Long range and high capacity several hundreds kbps But requires infrastructure Standards well defined and recently upgraded to better support NNEC 9 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

10 SHF Satcom US a/c SATURN radio UAV Proprietary radio Radio Relay FR PR4G radio (FR crypto) NLD PR4G radio (NLD crypto) TacSat UHF Satcom NLD Helo Civil ATC radio HF radio SHF Satcom UK BOWMAN radio 10 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

11 Challenges Operations are Multi-national Data-intensive, Mobile Changing Solutions must be Interoperable, multi-nationally Realisable within available spectrum Flexible, but reliable 11 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

12 Emerging Waveform Standards V/UHF: Narrow Band Waveform (NBWF) Moderate range moderate capacity 10s kbps UHF (WBWF): Ground to ground Higher capacity 100s kbps, but less range High Capacity Beyond Line of Sight (BLoS) Troposcatter Airborne platforms Fielding new standards rapidly and widely is enabled by reconfigurable radios 12 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

13 Compendium of standards ADatP-34 NATO Interoperability Standards and Profiles Relevant NATO standards for communications and other services are maintained in the NISP 13 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

14 Standardisation Better a small slice of a big pie, than a big slice of a small pie - Calouste Gulbenkian 14 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

15 SATCOM LITF ref ELOS AITF ref ELOS LITF ref LOS LITF ref BLOS MITF ref BLOS LITF ref ELOS LITF ref ELOS LITF ref LOS LITF ref LOS LITF ref 4-Dec-14 NATO UNCLASSIFIED 15 4-Dec-14 UNCLASSIFIED 15

16 Deployment of new standards Challenges Tactical radio lifespans Capabilities of radio platforms Deployment cost But if we don t Widespread deployment of new standards is hindered by the cost of replacing radio platforms. Reconfigurable radio systems remove many of those limitations. 16 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

17 Military and civil environments Military Civil Customer base Limited, govt Widespread User reqs of radio Varied Fairly static Equipment lifetime 20 years < 2 years Equipment cost High Low Development time 2-10 years Months Security Government Maybe some Radio platforms Varied Limited Testing National or Intl. Commercial Civil and military radio systems historically have different characteristics 17 NATO UNCLASSIFIED 17

18 SCIP: A three basket standards model Stanag 4591 G.729D Application SCIP-210 Signalling Privacy NR Natl-XXX Protected SCIP-231 * Secret SCIP-232 Cryptographic Suite Natl-XXX SCIP-121 * SCIP-120 Key Management Plan GSM IP PSTN ISDN Networks Systems may utilize standards from different sources, public standards for non-sensitive functions plus non-public or controlled standards for more sensitive functions. 18 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

19 Radio Spectrum Radio spectrum is finite Hard limit on throughput available into a deployed operation and between mobile units. Spectrum is used for many purposes Civil and military Communications, Sensors, C-IED, ELINT NATO must maximise use of available spectrum Efficient applications and proxies Coordinated spectrum management Spectrum sharing 19 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

20 CR and Security Maximise spectrum use Spectrum sharing White space Adapt to local / national regulations and usage React to policies and usage reports of other nodes Trust information which drives radio performance Cognitive radio offers benefits but is open to additional threats 20 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

21 Summary Future operations rely on information Standards for information, applications & wired networks Future operations rely on mobility Interoperable radio comms essential Waveform designs are being realised NBWF, HDR WF Spectrum availability and effective spectrum exploitation will be crucial Implementation and deployment of new functionality is necessary RRS is an enabler for this 21 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

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