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SOFTWARE DEFINED CUSTOMIZATION OF NETWORK PROTOCOLS WITH LAYER 4.5
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-09)
The rise of software defined networks, programmable data planes, and host level kernel programmability gives rise to highly specialized enterprise networks. One form of network specialization is protocol customization, ...
VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS OF THE PHYSICAL AND LOGICAL NETWORK TOPOLOGY ON THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-03)
In 2017, two hurricanes, Irma and Maria, left the U.S. Virgin Islands with a destroyed telecommunications infrastructure, demolished homes and collapsed powerlines. Even though the communications system is broken into ...
UNDERWATER COMMUNICATIONS WITH ACOUSTIC STEGANOGRAPHY: RECOVERY ANALYSIS AND MODELING
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-12)
In the modern warfare environment, communication is a cornerstone of combat competence. However, the increasing threat of communications-denied environments highlights the need for communications systems with low probability ...
SOURCES OF CHANGE IN INTERNET PROTOCOL GEOLOCATION DATABASES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-09)
Commercial IP geolocation databases provide a capability to associate IP addresses or prefixes to a physical location. These services provide critical information for emergency services, commercial entities, and government ...
MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF MASKED CARRIER CHANNEL ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-06)
Legacy Navy communication systems are used for command and control in underwater fighting environments. Adversaries will seek to deny these communication mediums. Additionally, the use of these communication systems may ...
UNMANNED OCEAN LOGISTICS VESSEL-BASED DISRUPTION-TOLERANT NETWORK
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-09)
Network connectivity is sparse in the marine environment where there is a lack of wireless infrastructure. The mobility of ships, along with fluctuating sea surfaces, makes maintaining end-to-end connectivity between ships ...
MAPPING MOBILE IPV6 PROVIDERS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-09)
Despite the exponential increase of IPv6 addresses and traffic on the Internet, relatively little is known about the topology of this space compared to the IPv4 Internet. However, recent discoveries in IPv6 probing have ...
A CASE FOR SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING IN THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS: AUTOMATING DISTRIBUTED FIREWALLS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-06)
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a field in computer science that has seen rapid adoption in industry and academia. SDN reduces network administration and cost, empowers fine grain network control, and enables ...
AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF A MACHINE-LEARNING-BASED NETWORK ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR NETWORKING IN A HIGHLY MOBILE TOPOLOGY
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-12)
This thesis studies the performance of a machine-learning-based DTN routing protocol, QGeo. QGeo is based on the reinforcement learning model called Q-learning whereby an agent in some context takes an action, gains a ...
SCALING NETWORK TARPITS FOR IPV6
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-12)
Cyberspace is vital to the application of joint military operations, to the advancement of economic growth, and to the enhancement of day-to-day life. As such, its defense is critical, yet its defense is also difficult, ...
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