TY - GEN
T1 - Impact of security properties on the quality of information in tactical military networks
AU - Cirincione, Greg
AU - Krishnamurthy, Srikanth
AU - La Porta, Thomas F.
AU - Govindan, Ramesh
AU - Mohapatra, Prasant
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The goal of a tactical military network is to provide information superiority over an opposing force. This information superiority increases mission tempo if the information can be used to make correct decisions within time constraints. To achieve this goal, a sufficient amount of information must be received with a required quality. The information quality implicitly accounts for the level of security provided. In this paper we examine the dependencies between security and other factors that affect the information quality. We incorporate the notion of the amount of information of sufficient quality received over time as the operational information content capacity. We discuss the complex tradeoffs that arise while providing security properties: the decision maker may require certain security properties to use information, but the provision of such properties may degrade the ability of the network to deliver the required amount of information in time, thus lowering the operational information content capacity of the network.
AB - The goal of a tactical military network is to provide information superiority over an opposing force. This information superiority increases mission tempo if the information can be used to make correct decisions within time constraints. To achieve this goal, a sufficient amount of information must be received with a required quality. The information quality implicitly accounts for the level of security provided. In this paper we examine the dependencies between security and other factors that affect the information quality. We incorporate the notion of the amount of information of sufficient quality received over time as the operational information content capacity. We discuss the complex tradeoffs that arise while providing security properties: the decision maker may require certain security properties to use information, but the provision of such properties may degrade the ability of the network to deliver the required amount of information in time, thus lowering the operational information content capacity of the network.
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U2 - 10.1109/MILCOM.2010.5680438
DO - 10.1109/MILCOM.2010.5680438
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79951615441
SN - 9781424481804
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - 2010 IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2010
Y2 - 31 October 2010 through 3 November 2010
ER -