Cyber Security Challenges in Future Military Battlefield Information Networks

Abstract

This paper explains the evolution of technology from obsolete military battlefield networks towards the global military battlefield information network from information and cyber security point of view. The authors focus on the threat of the communication medium which is mainly used in military battlefield information networks -the wireless channel, which is the basis of different mobile wireless systems. This paper deals with complex threats to military cyberspace, in which primarily wireless channels may be easily available by the enemy. Employed subnetworks may have different properties.A unifying extended layered model is presented in the article, which in addition to ISO/OSI model spreads cyber threat to geographic and social spheres. The article also shortly illustrates the development of electronic military warfare towards cyber military warfare.

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“…The issue of securing data against errors in the transfer channel using FEC (Forward Error Correction) codes is a field on its own covered by other specialists. The comprehensiveness of such systems is even greater for military radio communication systems, which also solve problems raised by an EW (Electronic Warfare) opponent (signal intercept, localization, analyzing, tampering, jamming,…) [4], [5]. These factors make it difficult for these systems to be analyzed, tested, verified and taught.…”