Publications

Federated Mission Networking (FMN) is the main context and motivation for our work. IST-150 “NATO Core Services Profiling for Hybrid Tactical Networks” is intended to provide knowledge about services at the tactical level, and possibly feed into future spirals of FMN targeting the tactical level specifically. We target Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the tactical domain, and specifically the Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) Core Service. MOM covers two communication patterns: Publish/subscribe communication and request/response communication. In IST-150 we have experimented with both these patterns, evaluating industry standards in typical tactical network settings, using both military radio hardware and network emulators. Based on our findings, we recommend the industry standard Message Queueing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) for publish/subscribe, and we recommend using REST-based services replacing the HTTP/TCP transport with CoAP for request/response type services. The report covers these findings in detail, supporting these recommendations. Our work should be taken both as input to future FMN spirals as well as continuing IST research task groups where MOM services play a role.