Wireless networks are now ubiquitous across the tactical environment. They offer unprecedented communications and data access capabilities. However, providing information security to wireless transmissions without impacting performance is a challenge. The information security requirement for each operational scenario presents a large trade space for functionality versus performance. One aspect of this trade space pertains to where information security services are integrated into the protocol stack. This paper will present an overview of the various options that exist and will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each option.

Date Published: 21 May 2015
PDF: 15 pages
Proc. SPIE 9497, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2015, 94970D (21 May 2015);

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9497:
Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2015
Sos S. Agaian; Sabah A. Jassim; Eliza Yingzi Du, Editor(s)