Service-Oriented Integration of Systems for Military Capability

Russell, Duncan; Looker, N.; Liu, Lu; Xu, Jie

doi:10.1109/isorc.2008.45

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“…The framework is built on two measures derived from NATO's Measures of Merit (MoM): Measures of Performance (MoP) and Measures of Effectiveness (MoE). MoP verify an individual system against its service specification [6]. The MoP are independent of an operational scenario and allow the results to be compared with systems that provide the same functionality.…”

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“…NEC requires the integration of independent components, systems, and networks that can evolve and operate in a collaborative and dependable manner. NEC makes demands on the system design that cannot be fulfilled by traditional system engineering design principles [6], because systems no longer operate in isolation. NEC will be realized through networks of systems of systems that are dynamic, large-scale and subject to continual change and evolution.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Scenario-based design and evaluation for capability

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2010 5th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering

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Scenario-based design and evaluation for capability

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2010 5th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering

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“…NEC requires system integration of independent components that can evolve, operate in a dependable manner, managing system and component changes, be cost effective and connect industrial, defence and pan-defence environments [11].…”

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Modelling and simulation of Network Enabled Capability on service-oriented architecture

Liu

Russell

et al. 2009

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

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Network Enabled Capability (NEC) is the U.K. Ministry of Defence's response to the quickly changing conflict environment in which its forces must operate. In NEC, systems need to be integrated in context, to assist in human activity and provide dependable inter-operation. In this paper, we present our research work in the NECTISE project with a focus on the modelling and simulation of service-oriented architecture (SOA) for delivering dependable and sustainable military capability. The simulation results indicate that the proposed architectural model can provide a high-level of reliability and sustainability in the provision of capability in a dynamic environment.Moreover, a NEC demonstration system for regional surveillance is introduced in this paper to illustrate the use of SOA to achieve NEC. The rest of the paper is organised as follows. Section 2 discusses part of an investigation into SOA for the support of dynamic military environments and delivery of NEC. The architectural solutions for dependable and sustainable provision of capability are presented in Section 3. In Section 4, the reliability of provision of capability is evaluated by modelling and simulations of SOA in a dynamic environment. KeywordsThe NEC demonstration system for regional surveillance is introduced in Section 5 to illustrate the use of SOA for NEC. In Section 6, conclusions are drawn and future work is described. Service-Oriented ArchitectureThe use of SOA has been motivated by many industries changing focus from product delivery to service-based delivery. The focus on service delivery has also been apparent in software, where networking has become faster, more reliable and more available through reduced cost. The approach to SOA in software enables business process integration that characterises business functions as services, and integrates dynamically across departments and organisations.The conceptual SOA can be used to integrate businesses, systems and computing at Services in NECThe NEC initiative recognises that providing integrated functionality is the main requirement in supporting military capability, and that functionality can be delivered without ownership of the delivery mechanism.In principle, suppliers can respond to customers' needs, providing the delivery of appropriate and up-to-date solutions into the military. Architectural characteristics required by NEC, such as flexible interoperability and future-proof evolvability, can be in part provided by SOA, where organisations, systems and computing each have defined service interfaces. Figure 1: Capability concept modelIn this paper, the definition of the term 'service' is not limited to Web Services and is not restricted to specific technologies. Services include other system resources, people and processes. A formal service description is used to define a service and a 5 service interface is used to access it. This level of abstraction allows the composition of services, similar to the integration of responsibilities in Figure 1. The capability concept mo...

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“…Additionally, Kidston et al [20] presented a cross-layer architecture for network performance optimization, according to their analysis over system specific quality of service requirements. As presented earlier the requirements of NEC and NCW, promoted the use of service oriented architectures, for enabling such capabilities across tactical networks [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] Yet, the field has not been studied in depth from the scope of security, or the operational assumptions do not coincide with the realistic constraints of the modern battlefield. Setting the services as the core element of tactical networks, within the constrained nature of the operational environments and infrastructures, impose a unique set of security requirements which we seek to identify and analyse within this study.…”

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Security Requirements for the Deployment of Services Across Tactical SOA

Gkioulos

Wolthusen

2017

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) have been identified as a suitable mediator towards the attainment of the requirements imposed by modern warfare. Earlier studies focused primarily on the strategic domain, or the adaptation of such systems to the requirements of the tactical domain. Yet, the underlying constraints are significantly different between the two, with direct impact both on security and quality of service. In this article we approach the security aspect of tactical SOA, focusing on the specifics of the services while operating under the constrains and requirements of modern battlefields. Selected elements of our analysis within the project TACTICS are presented, as they have been utilized for the extraction of operational and technical requirements towards the development of a suitable tactical service infrastructure.

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Service-Oriented Integration of Systems for Military Capability

Cited by 30 publications

References 17 publications

Scenario-based design and evaluation for capability

Scenario-based design and evaluation for capability

Modelling and simulation of Network Enabled Capability on service-oriented architecture

Security Requirements for the Deployment of Services Across Tactical SOA

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