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Fig. 1
FMN spirals. FMN, Federated Mission Networking.
Fig. 2
Information flow overview between user-facing services (applications), adaptive middleware, network awareness service and tactical router.
Fig. 3
The Interconnect-overlay architecture with six different tier-2 routing domains and the tier-1 overlay inter-network routing domain. Platform A and B of each nation serve as interconnection platforms and participate in the overlay routing domain of tier-1.
Fig. 4
DFS routing protocol's signalling to search for the route from source node (A) to destination node (B). DFS, depth first search.
Fig. 5
The federated coalition network available to troops patrolling the Wellport city of the Anglova scenario. One of the platoons that carry a UAV that can provide a video footage of the area is shown.
Fig. 6
SASC.Manager sources, services and adapters configuration. SASC, sysint adaptive service control.
Fig. 7
SASC.Manager rules configuration. SASC, sysint adaptive service control.
Fig. 8
NetJSON excerpt showing a single route.
Traffic classes and routing policy rules
Traffic class with some example service types
Policy
High priority traffic that does not consume much data: Examples include BFT and chat without attachments, possibly also (low resolution) pictures associated with important alerts.
Rule 1
High data rate traffic: Examples include streaming video with good resolution, high-resolution pictures and chat with attachments.
Rule 2
Best effort traffic
Rule 3
Allow/deny policies for the defined rules on each interface
Interface
Rule 1
Rule 2
Rule 3
The narrowband waveform interface
Allow
Deny
Deny
The wideband waveform interface
Allow
Allow
Allow
The interface towards the shared national resources (e.g., a tunnel)