System architecture for managing resources in a communication network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9787426-B2
Application number	US-201514941424-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 13, 2015
Priority date	Nov 14, 2014
Publication date	Oct 10, 2017
Grant date	Oct 10, 2017

Abstract

A system architecture for managing resources in a communication network comprises in combination at least the following elements: a plurality of radio equipments working in a given frequency band and with identical frequency hopping rules; the radio equipments are managed by a master device; and a radio equipment comprises at least: a radiocommunication module that carries the radiocommunications; a module suitable for tapping, monitoring and intercepting radio signals in the environment and for recording them locally in a database; a module suitable for disrupting non-authorized communications; and a local “3 in 1” management module receiving the orders emitted by the master device, the management module being suitable for controlling the various modules of the radio equipment; a radio-router module; and a tapping and monitoring module.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system architecture for managing resources in a communication network of military ad-hoc type or safety type comprising:
a plurality of radio equipments working in a given frequency band and with identical frequency hopping rules, said radio equipments being software programmed,
a radio equipment comprises at least two of:
a software module to assure a main function of radio communication that supports exchanges on a chain of command, voice, and data;
a software module for tapping, monitoring and intercepting radio signals in a communication environment and for recording the radio signals locally in a database;
a module adapted for disrupting non-authorized communications;
a local “3 in 1” management module receiving orders emitted by master device, the “3 in 1” management module being adapted for controlling various modules of said radio equipment;
a software radio-router module; and
a software tapping and monitoring module,

wherein said plurality of radio equipments being managed by the master device for implementing “3 in 1” functions provided to the communication network, said master device configured to select one or more most appropriate “3 in 1” capacities, said “3 in 1” capacities including geographic proximity to sought targets, availability of resources, and best topologies depending on a function to be carried out by the plurality of radio equipments, said master device configured to program the plurality of radio equipments to avoid points of congestion in the system architecture and parallelize an operation of the system architecture,
wherein a coefficient K is chosen such that a performance Perf systdeployment of the system architecture obtained by deploying a plurality of parts of said radio equipment is such that Perf systdeployment =K.Perf equipment where K is chosen for selecting communication relays and bases to minimize end-to-end latency of communication using the system architecture, wherein Perf equipment is a performance of the radio equipment.

2. The system architecture according to claim 1 , wherein a radio-router module comprises a plurality of functional modules, including a matching and transmission module, a module allowing transmission reliability to be increased, a data transfer module, a routing module, and a local management module receiving data to be stored and then transferred according to criteria and constraints to the master device for data processing.

3. The system architecture according to claim 1 , wherein the software module for tapping and monitoring comprises a radiocommunication module carrying out radiocommunications, a module for tapping, monitoring and intercepting radio signals in the communication environment and for recording the radio signals locally in a database, a module suitable for disrupting non-authorized communications, and a local management module receiving orders emitted by the master device, the management module being configured to control the various modules of said radio equipment.

4. The system architecture according to claim 1 , wherein the master device comprises:
a database containing information or data regarding operational and technical constraints;
a database containing geographical data relating to a distribution of a zones of interest;
a database including information regarding communication spectra of interest for said radio communication;
a database containing geographical data regarding receiver geographical positions;
a database containing communication network topologies;
a database of exchange flow states;
an equipment management algorithm; and
a module for communicating with the radio equipment of the system architecture.

5. The system architecture according to claim 4 , wherein the equipment management algorithm is suitable for programming resources of the most appropriate radio units to optimize conjoint operation of functions for monitoring transmissions, originating from radio devices, and radiocommunication functions, in a communication network under quality of service QoS and service level agreement constraints.

6. The system architecture according to claim 1 , wherein the system architecture comprises a plurality of transmission networks networked via nodes providing matching, transferring and routing technical functions to particular radio networks.

7. The system architecture according to claim 1 , wherein a radio equipment comprises a local clock and local clocks of the radio equipment present in the system architecture are networked in order to converge to a system time.

Assignees

• Thales Sa

Inventors

• Franck Bertrand
• Merel Dominique

Classifications

• H04K3/45

  characterized by including monitoring of the target or target signal, e.g. in reactive jammers or follower jammers for example by means of an alternation of jamming phases and monitoring phases, called "look-through mode" · CPC title

• H04L63/1408

  by monitoring network traffic (monitoring network traffic per se H04L43/00) · CPC title

• H04L63/30

  for supporting lawful interception, monitoring or retaining of communications or communication related information (circuit switched telephony call monitoring H04M3/2281) · CPC title

• H04K3/86

  related to preventing deceptive jamming or unauthorized interrogation or access, e.g. WLAN access or RFID reading (record carriers with integrated circuit chips including means for preventing undesired reading or writing from or to record carriers by hindering electromagnetic reading or writing G06K19/07318; arrangements for sensing record carriers including arrangements for protecting the interrogation against piracy attacks G06K7/10257) · CPC title

• H04B1/0003

  Software-defined radio [SDR] systems, i.e. systems wherein components typically implemented in hardware, e.g. filters or modulators/demodulators, are implented using software, e.g. by involving an AD or DA conversion stage such that at least part of the signal processing is performed in the digital domain (digital baseband systems H04L25/00; digital modulation/demodulation H04L27/00; CDMA H04B1/707; TDMA H04B7/2643; image transmission H04N5/00) · CPC title