ATM Tactical Network - a challenge for the military networks

The next generation of tactical networks will be based on the ATM technology. The POST-2000 tactical network is just in the designing phase. The objective of this paper is to point out the main problems which should be solved to adopt ATM technology into the tactical network environment. The barriers are caused by the fact that the radio links are of low bit rate and might encounter in hight error rate. Another problem is the radio access scheme. However, similar topics occur in the non-militay ATM telecommincation environment, where the activities are focused on the edevlopment of Wireless ATM and is seen as the predominant technology to achieve thi