Hyper-Nodes for Emerging Command and Control Networks: The 8th Layer
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Bordetsky, Alex
Hayes-Roth, Rick
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2006-09
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September 26-28, 2006
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In this paper we introduce the architecture and functionality of a new 8th layer that extends the well known 7-layer OSI model to implement adaptive networking by giving every critical node of a C4I network its own specialized Network Operation Center (NOC) capability. Emerging network-centric concepts such as FORCEnet and ubiquitous networking services such as the Global Information Grid will need to incorporate self-organizing network clusters including semi-autonomous sensors, unmanned vehicles, and human decision-makers. In these predominantly mesh networking architectures the behavior of every node, its capability to form or to heal the network, depends on the node’s awareness about networking status and capabilities of its neighbors. This trend toward meshing of more capable nodes will eventually evolve into a qualitatively new architecture, in which every significant node also acts as a small-scale NOC. We illustrate this trend by observations of recent SOCOM-NPS Tactical Network Topology experiments. We show how this can be thought of as the 8th level of the OSI stack, where the new layer adds intelligent adaptive self-control. The new layer requires a new protocol, which would include a new type of message, its semantics and syntax, as well as a new type of interpreter describing the behavior of the 8th layer state machine.
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11th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS), September 26-28, 2006, Cambridge, UK
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