Research On Network Address Structure And Allocation In UAS-TN

This dissertation is dedicated to addressing issues for a special type of MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc Network) - UAS-TN (Unmanned Aerial System Tactic Network) based on a novel network architecture called DRNA (Dynamically Re-definable Network Architecture). This project is backed up by a research project aiming at a new network architecture of UAS-TN in the perspective of GDSN (Global Dynamically-reconfigurable Strategic Network) of wartime military network. UAS is playing more and more important roles in military operation, from E-surveillance, radio interference through direct assaults with advances in UAS technologies.With new advances in UAS, network-supported UAS operation becomes an obvious trend, in which single high-cost UAS is replaced by groups of small and low-costs UAS. Considering that the UAS-TN is working in a hostile space, where unreliable wireless communication techniques plus severe radio interference and electronic tapping are major challenges for information exchange within a network. This is exactly the reason for developing the DRNA. This dissertation tries to explore addressing issues in UAS-TN with the DRNA architecture.The main parts of this thesis are organized as follows:Chapter 2 provides a comprehensive discussion on MANET and UAS-TN with an emphasis on DRNA, which in turn spurs the necessity of instruction Dynamically-Redefinable Network Address Structure (DRNAS) further examined in the following chapters. Based on the study on existing addressing strategy in MANET in chapter 3, chapter 4 presents a framework of DRNAS with detailed discussion on the structure of DRNAS and auto configuration policies. Chapter 5 is devoted to address-hiding techniques with DRNAS and preliminary simulation results followed has shown that the suggested addressing strategy is workable and adds credits to security of UAS-TN.