IANetServ: Design and Implementation of Robust An Auto-Configurable Network Services for Airborne Network (Preprint)

The next-generation airborne networks (ANs) will be all IP-based to provide seamless connectivity and reach ability among network hosts including diverse aircraft and unmanned air vehicles. Due to the dynamic nature and bandwidth/capacity limited channel condition of airborne network, providing dynamic yet efficient network service always faces many challenges. In this paper, we summarize the IANetServ architecture, which provides robust and auto-configurable network service framework suitable for performance of the IANetServ architecture. Amongst many different types of network service, we limit our presentation of the IANetService architecture to the address configuration and name resolution. Prepared in cooperation with Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Piscataway, NJ. Submitted for presentation at the Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2010, in San Jose, CA on 31 Oct-3 Nov 2010. The original document contains color images.