Communications, Networking and Cyber Modelling and Simulation Support Defence
(Room S320C)
30 Nov 17
11:00 AM
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11:30 AM
The exponential growth in the today’s communication and network infrastructures (wired, wireless, radio and satellite network) introduces high technological content and evolution in the Defence network and the related cyber defence aspects. It is necessary to make forecasting and proactive end-to-end performance analysis to evaluate the acquisition process of the Defence network technological evolution and the protection of the information exchange in case of cyber operations. This paper discusses the Communication, Networking and Cyber Modelling and Simulation (CN&C M&S) concept to support military M&S aspect for the technology innovation, data protection, evolution, development and acquisition of new defence capabilities. The authors illustrates how CN&C M&S is utilized to support the definition of the operating technical requirements for the evolution and rationalization of a Defence telecommunication network. This approach allowed the definition of a possible support to the procurement model that would reduce the risks in the acquisition process by evaluating the proposed solution in a simulated environment before its implementation. From a cyber defence point of view, the paper illustrates a National Research Military Project namely “Cyber Security Simulation Environment (CSSE)” where the reuse of Defence network model support the modelling and simulation in the field of Cyber Defence to demonstrate the effects of a Cyber Operation on a command and control systems (C2). Finally, the aspects of Communication, Networking and Cyber Modelling and Simulation discussed in this paper may constitute a support tool for the evaluation of applications and the related use of this capability in the Defence fields.