Application of ATM network techniques to new naval combat systems

Military naval on-board communications, COTS technologies are now commonly used for both nonoperational software communications and operational software communications. In this paper application of ATM network techniques to new naval combat systems is studied. The concept of an extended combat system naval force and coast based sensors networks and to keep end-to-end QoS through heterogeneous interconnected networks including Internet is discussed. Security enhancement is possible over classical ATM with a light AAL adaptation that can insure optimal data transfer time with minimal cell losses.