ABSTRACT
Abstract Designed to meet high capacity large area networking requirements in a mobile tactical environment, the tactical networking waveform allows for a broad band, large-scale network capable of servicing command centers using both static and mobile configurations over the entire battle space. The tactical networking waveform relies on spatially switched directional beam antenna
Contents Abstract ....................................................................................................................................381 18.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 382
18.1.1 Waveform Overview ........................................................................................... 382 18.2 Media Access Control .................................................................................................... 384
18.2.1 TDMA Frame and Slot Structure ....................................................................... 384 18.2.2 MANET Operation .............................................................................................385 18.2.3 Neighbor Discovery .............................................................................................385 18.2.4 Timeslot Classes ................................................................................................. 386
18.3 Layer 2 Timing .............................................................................................................. 386 18.4 Network Throughput ..................................................................................................... 387
18.4.1 Frequency Reuse ................................................................................................. 387 18.5 Routing Layer Adaptation .............................................................................................. 388
18.5.1 PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) Extensions for Credit Flow and Link Metrics (RFC 5578) ......................................................................................................... 388
18.5.2 OSPF with MANET Extensions ........................................................................ 389 18.5.3 Radio-Aware Link-Metrics Tuning for OSPF ..................................................... 389 18.5.4 Emerging Topology Management Functionality ................................................. 390
18.6 Summary ........................................................................................................................391 References ................................................................................................................................391
technology to create a robust self-forming and self-healing mesh network, even when command centers are highly dispersed. Utilizing directional instead of omni antennas allows the formation of large networks in a division size operational area using a single 20 MHz frequency assignment to meet their operational needs.
