Achieving policy defined networking for military operations

Abstract

There has been significant recent progress in the area of software defined networking in a quest to increase automation, improve network agility and security, simplify network configuration and reduce resources to establish and maintain the network. There are a number of studies exploring the development and utilisation of policies to achieve these goals. Applying the outcomes of these studies to military networks requires a clear understanding of the nature of military applications and available mechanisms to implement the appropriate policies in a software defined networking environment. In this paper, we identify several military networks where automated policy defined networking is crucial. We further present a prototype policy defined networking solution that automatically translates high-level policies into device level implementations.