1. Thesis and Dissertation Collection, all items
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 ...
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 ...
SYNTHETIC NETWORK GENERATION AND VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS OF INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS IN THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-09)
In September 2017, Category-5 Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck the U.S. Virgin Islands and caused significant damage to all critical infrastructure within the territory. This thesis assesses the vulnerability of the fiber ...
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 ...
ANALYZING CELL PHONE NETWORK RESILIENCE IN THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
This thesis assesses the operational resilience of the wireless communication system in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) and provides recommendations to protect this system from future disasters. We develop a model of the ...
MODELING GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM POSITIONAL ERROR EFFECTS ON GEOGRAPHIC ROUTING PROTOCOLS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
Recent work on geographic routing protocols has shown that Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) positional error directly affects message delivery rates (MDRs) within Delay and ...