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A Study on the Design of KVMF 2.0 Protocol for Ensuring Backward/Forward Compatibility between Different KVMF Message Standard Versions

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2023, 28(3), pp.45-58
  • DOI : 10.9708/jksci.2023.28.03.045
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science
  • Received : February 3, 2023
  • Accepted : March 21, 2023
  • Published : March 31, 2023

Jeong-Min Lee 1 Won-Gi Lim 2 Won-Jun Cho 1 Yong-Cheol Kim 1 Jeung-Sub Lee 1

1한화시스템
2국방과학연구소

Accredited

ABSTRACT

KVMF(Korean Variable Message Format) 1.0 protocol is the Army's standard tactical datalink protocol that defines standard messages and communication methods to enable data communication between various weapon systems through bitwise variable message processing. The protocol has been applied to a variety of Army weapon systems over the past decade and has contributed to upgrade the Army's operational capabilities by enabling the implementation of Network Centric Warfare (NCW), the core of modern warfare. Since the KVMF 1.0 protocol was applied, new weapon systems with new technologies have been introduced over time, and new weapon systems have new messages based on the characteristics of the weapon system. As a result, compatibility problems arose due to different message versions with existing weapon systems, and it was expected that these problems would continue to emerge in the future, considering the need for continuous message revisions. Therefore, it became necessary to solve this problem, so this paper proposed a KVMF 2.0 protocol design that guarantees compatibility between forward and backward versions. In this paper, we implemented the design as SW, and confirmed that the design worked successfully by test between forward and backward versions on test environment. Therefore, when the KVMF 2.0 protocol design is applied to a weapon system, we can expect that the weapon system can be compatible with the forward and backward versions working with the existing weapon systems as well as with the future weapon systems.

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