Directory-enabled network management framework for battlefield networks

While the emerging CORBA technology holds many desirable characteristics of a distributed object system it is equally attractive as a platform for integrating different systems that will co-exist in the battlefield networks. In this paper, we investigate a framework that integrates emerging Java and directory service technologies with the CORBA based network management system to provide directory service enabled network management (DEMAN) capability. It is envisioned that this framework will enable DEMAN capability to be made available sooner (by using more matured technologies) and cover a wider portion of the battlefield network (by including Java-capable network elements).