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Tactical Data Links in a C2SIM Environment

EasyChair Preprint no. 455

9 pagesDate: August 25, 2018

Abstract

Tactical Data Link (TDL) are a set of standards for Command and Control (C2) Systems to continuously exchange operational situations, orders and reports with other C2 or TDL enabled platforms such as fighters or ships. This paper focus on proposing a solution for efficiently stimulating one or many C2 systems with a simulated complex tactical environment using the TDL interfaces of the C2 System. It relies on the ongoing work made by the C2SIM Product Development Group (PDG) of the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO). C2SIM standard which is under development aims to ease C2 and Simulation interoperability improving both the previous SISO-STD-007-2008 Standard for Military Standard Definition Language (MSDL) and the SISO-STD-011-2015 Standard for Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML). It is proposed to develop a C2SIM TDL extension to define a standard and straightforward way of exchanging TDL messages between simulation / simulators and C2 systems. Such extension is intending to focus on TDL functions and not to detail technical mechanisms of real TDL implementations. The purpose is to make it accessible without a significant technical TDL knowledge. The approach relies on the definition of a data model, called LinkX, which defines the set of common services, messages, types and dictionaries reflecting the main concepts of the different TDL implementations (Link 11, Link 16, Link 22, VMF, etc). This data model is proposed to be implemented as a C2SIM extension. This paper first describes the background information about the use of TDL in simulations which illustrates the needs for the proposed approach. The LinkX data model is then presented with the methodology used to design it. The paper provides early feedbacks about the preliminary implementation work of this data model as a C2SIM extension based on preliminary versions of the standard, and presents the experimental frame that will be developed to assess the extension.

Keyphrases: C-BML, C2SIM, DirectCGF, MSDL, NAF, simple, TDL

BibTeX entry
BibTeX does not have the right entry for preprints. This is a hack for producing the correct reference:
@Booklet{EasyChair:455,
  author = {Lionel Khimeche and Eric Bouvier and Laurent Mounet},
  title = {Tactical Data Links in a C2SIM Environment},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 455},
  doi = {10.29007/j452},
  year = {EasyChair, 2018}}
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