Evaluating defense services performance on military cloud continuum systems

A Battlefield Management System (BMS) is a tactical Command and Control system which supports military operations on the battlefield to provide a continuous and coherent representation of the state of a tactical scenario. The implementation of a BMS may benefit from the possibilities offered by Cloud Continuum technologies, while considering the security requirements when exploiting their infrastructure. Cloud Continuum may be used in place of the existing solutions, provided that proper performance evaluation techniques are available to assess its effectiveness and account for the impact of security constraints.In this paper we propose a modeling approach for a Battlefield Management System based on Cloud Continuum technologies and a performance evaluation framework to support its design and management before and during a mission.