# Presentation: 109822

## Phillip E. Paulsen
Space Communications Office
NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC)
Cleveland, Ohio

6 November 2002

- Space Communications Office
- NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC)
- Cleveland, Ohio
- 6 November 2002

- NASA Space InternetTechnology Project Overview

## Secure Mobile Network DemonstrationBackground: Justification  

- Need for an unprecedented level of data integration across a wide variety of platforms.
- Satellites shift from being simply sensor platforms to being sensor platforms and communications hubs.
- Seamless integration of terrestrial, shipboard, airborne, and space-based assets.
- Need for secure, autonomous, shared, distributed tasking and data processing in space.
- On-the-fly response to real-time events (predictive analysis versus post analysis).
- Common platforms with multi-agency sensor suites requiring multi-level security and access control.
- Desire to allow access and limited control to sophisticated systems by “unsophisticated” users.
- Strong desire to spend less on infrastructure and more on sensor development..
- Push for common interfaces and open standards.
- Push for use of commercial assets /  shared infrastructure to collect and disseminate data.
- Push to improve platform flexibility to accommodate future changes in the state-of-the-art.
- Push to reduce the need for “people in the loop”.
- 	Key Question: Will Internet Protocols be the low cost “glue” that holds together and enables tomorrow’s “network of networks” in space, in the air, at sea, and on the ground?

**Secure Mobile Network Demonstration**Background: Justification

## Secure Mobile Network Demonstration GRC’s ACTS IP Consortium (circa 1998+)

- Sun Microsystems
- Compaq
- Microsoft
- Intel
- IBM
- Hewlett-Packard
**Spacecraft Manufacturers**
- Spectrum Astro
- Hughes Space & Communications
- Lockheed Martin
- Space Systems / Loral
- Boeing
- Ball

**Secure Mobile Network Demonstration **GRC’s ACTS IP Consortium (circa 1998+)

**Communications**
- Ampex Data Systems
- Comsat Laboratories
- Cisco Systems
- FORE / Marconi
- Raytheon Telecom
- Cabletron Systems
**US Government Laboratories**
- NASA Ames Research Center
- NASA Johnson Space Center
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
- U.S. Army / CECOM

## Secure Mobile Network Demonstration

- Background: GRC’s ACTS Internet Test Bed

- NASA’s
- Advanced Communications
- Technology Satellite (ACTS)

- ATM
- Switch

- Sun
- Sun

- OC-3  PoS
- OC-12 ATM

- 622 or 155
- ATM
- MM

- ATM
- Switch

- Sun
- Sun

- 622 or 155
- ATM
- MM

- Ultra SCSI

- Ampex
- DIS-160

- 622 Mbps
- Satellite Link

- Lockheed Martin Space Operations
- CSOC Integration Center
- Houston TX

- NASA
- Glenn Research Center
- Cleveland, Ohio

- DEC
- Compaq

- Microsoft
- Intel

- IBM
- IBM

- DEC
- Compaq

- Microsoft
- Intel

- IBM
- IBM

- ATM Switch		FORE ASX-1200
- Gigabit Ethernet Hub	FORE ESX-2400
- Router		Cisco 7507

- OC-3 PoS
- OC-12 ATM

- Gig E
- Hub

- Gig E
- Hub

- Gigabit
- Enet

- Gigabit
- Enet

- OS
- HW

**LEGEND**

- Operating System

- Hardware Platform

- Router

- Router

- HP
- HP

- HP
- HP

## NASA is investing in the development of technologies to enable future Internet Protocol (IP)-based integrated space operations.
Goals:
Future spacecraft act like a “node on the Internet”.
Both primary satellite bus & payloads.
Seamless interoperability between space and ground-based systems.
Impact mission life cycle costs by:
Reducing the total time required to design, develop, test, launch, and validate spacecraft.
Enables an entirely new way of performing interface verifications and integrated system checkout.
Vendors predict a life cycle cost savings as high as 20-25%.
Reducing the cost to operate satellites and support systems.
Enable entirely new classes of service.
Telepresence.
Launch on demand.
Enable the eventual transition of space operations to commercial services.

- Goals:
- Future spacecraft act like a “node on the Internet”.
- Both primary satellite bus & payloads.
- Seamless interoperability between space and ground-based systems.
- Impact mission life cycle costs by:
- Reducing the total time required to design, develop, test, launch, and validate spacecraft.
- Enables an entirely new way of performing interface verifications and integrated system checkout.
- Vendors predict a life cycle cost savings as high as 20-25%.
- Reducing the cost to operate satellites and support systems.
- Enable entirely new classes of service.
- Telepresence.
- Launch on demand.
- Enable the eventual transition of space operations to commercial services.

**Secure Mobile Network Demonstration**Background: A New Architecture in Space?

## Goals
Define, demonstrate, and validate a secure, mobile, Internet Protocol (IP)-compliant architecture utilizing secure Mobile Router technology under field conditions with relative motion across a variety of network domains.
Identify gaps and issues with Mobile IP implementation strategy.
Develop a strawman architecture with an eye towards incorporating similar technology aboard future NASA spacecraft.

Significance
The mobile network research conducted aboard USCG Neah Bay will have direct applicability to future spacecraft constellations or those which intend to conduct ad hoc communications with other spacecraft.

The demonstration will also provide insight into “real world” issues related to using commercial network services, crossing firewalls, and linking diverse domains (i.e. .mil to open networks).

- Define, demonstrate, and validate a secure, mobile, Internet Protocol (IP)-compliant architecture utilizing secure Mobile Router technology under field conditions with relative motion across a variety of network domains.
- Identify gaps and issues with Mobile IP implementation strategy.
- Develop a strawman architecture with an eye towards incorporating similar technology aboard future NASA spacecraft.
**Significance**
- The mobile network research conducted aboard USCG Neah Bay will have direct applicability to future spacecraft constellations or those which intend to conduct ad hoc communications with other spacecraft.
- The demonstration will also provide insight into “real world” issues related to using commercial network services, crossing firewalls, and linking diverse domains (i.e. .mil to open networks).

**Secure Mobile Network Demonstration **Neah Bay Demonstration** **Goals and Significance

## Cooperative research.
To hold down costs and demonstrate the most realistic scenarios possible we have borrowed equipment and expertise to the greatest extent possible:

Participants.
USCG (Network and Ship).
NASA (Networking Researching).
Cisco Systems (Network Development).
Western DataCom (Encryption Device).
Globalstar (Satellite Network).
Sea Tel Inc. (Antenna).
Stallion (Reverse Multiplexers).

- To hold down costs and demonstrate the most realistic scenarios possible we have borrowed equipment and expertise to the greatest extent possible:
- Participants.
- USCG (Network and Ship).
- NASA (Networking Researching).
- Cisco Systems (Network Development).
- Western DataCom (Encryption Device).
- Globalstar (Satellite Network).
- Sea Tel Inc. (Antenna).
- Stallion (Reverse Multiplexers).

**Secure Mobile Network Demonstration**
- Neah Bay Demonstration Participants

## Today’s demonstration will concentrate on issues related to:
Interoperability
Is the new network fully interoperable with existing open standards (IETF, HAIPIS)? 
Transparency
Can I field a mobile network that is truly “set and forget”?
Scalability
Will the technology that works on a single ship also work on many?
Mobility
Can I maintain network contact with something in motion without the need for manual reconfiguration?
Use of Shared Infrastructure
Can I take advantage of low cost (open) network infrastructure?
Security
Can I securely cross multiple domains (open, closed, government, military, etc...)?
Bandwidth
Can I accomplish all of the above and remain bandwidth efficient?

**Interoperability**
- Is the new network fully interoperable with existing open standards (IETF, HAIPIS)?
**Transparency**
- Can I field a mobile network that is truly “set and forget”?
**Scalability**
- Will the technology that works on a single ship also work on many?
**Mobility**
- Can I maintain network contact with something in motion without the need for manual reconfiguration?
**Use of Shared Infrastructure**
- Can I take advantage of low cost (open) network infrastructure?
**Security**
- Can I securely cross multiple domains (open, closed, government, military, etc...)?
**Bandwidth**
- Can I accomplish all of the above and remain bandwidth efficient?

**Secure Mobile Network Demonstration**
- Neah Bay Experiment: Background

## Phillip E. Paulsen
M.S. 54-6
NASA Glenn Research Center
21000 Brookpark Road
Cleveland, Oh  44135
Phone: (216) 433-6507
E Mail: phillip.e.paulsen@grc.nasa.gov

Publications
http://ctd.lerc.nasa.gov/5610/relpubs.html
http://roland.grc.nasa.gov/~ivancic/papers_presentations/papers.html
http://siw.gsfc.nasa.gov/agenda.html

- Phillip E. Paulsen
- M.S. 54-6
- NASA Glenn Research Center
- 21000 Brookpark Road
- Cleveland, Oh  44135
- Phone: (216) 433-6507
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- _Publications_
- _[http://ctd.lerc.nasa.gov/5610/relpubs.html](http://ctd.lerc.nasa.gov/5610/relpubs.html)_
- _[http://roland.grc.nasa.gov/~ivancic/papers_presentations/papers.html](http://roland.grc.nasa.gov/~ivancic/papers_presentations/papers.html)_
- http://siw.gsfc.nasa.gov/agenda.html

**Secure Mobile Network Demonstration**
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