LINK-11 Tactical Data Link WAVECOM Advanced Protocols NACHRICHTENTECHNIK LINK-11 Overview Link-11 Is a netted, digital data land-based, airborne and sea- Is identical with the US armed link employed by NATO and US borne platforms. Its main field _ forces’ Tactical Digital_Infor- armed forces for exchanging of operations is the exchange of mation Link A, TADIL-A. tactical information between naval radar information. Link-11 Fig. 1 Tactical data link network Link-11 comes in two modula- —Link-11 communicates both in and 150 nm for ship-air connec- ttion types, the original Conven- the HF and UHF bands and is tions. By way of configuration tional Link Eleven Waveform used over satellite links as well. the extended round trip time for (CLEW} and a more recent Sin- In HF ground wave operation it satellite inks may be mitigated. gle-tone Link Eleven Waveform has a range of up to 300 nautical Link-11. has been widely em- (SLEW). Wavecom has imple- miles (nm) and may reach a sky ployed within NATO and beyond mented CLEW. Hence this docu- wave range of 1,000 nm. UHF —_and is expected to continue in ment describes the CLEW for- Line-OF-Sight range is 20 to 30 service to at least 2015, mat. nm for ship-ship connections Blo ae a ea scion Horo] Fig. 2 Onboard system architectureLINK-11 Tactical Data Link WAVECOM Advanced Protocols NACHRICHTENTECHNIK LINK-11 Architecture A Link-11 network consists of 2 cryptographic device and a mo- buoys etc., as well tactical infor- Data Network Control Station dem or Data Terminal Set (DTS) mation in the form of splash (DNCS or NCS) and a number of | and HF or UHF transcelvers. Points, text messages etc. Participating Units (PU) or Pick- The TDS Is the core of the sys- The TDS will correlate data al- ets, Onboard a vessel or other tem and manages a data base of _ready in the database with data platform the equipment config- information on enemy position _ received from the PUs and send tration consists of a Tactical Da- fixes, tracks, Information on _Itto the display units. ta System (TDS)-acomputer-2 own PUs, vessels, aircraft, sono- Fig. 3A AN/USQ130 Link-11 data terminal set LINK-11 Protocol and Frame Structure Link-11 is based on the technol- the DTS adds another 6 bits for ALink-11 messages starts with a ‘ogies of the 1960s and this is Hamming Forward Error Correc- preamble and a phase reference reflected in the physical struc- tion able to detect and correct _ followed by an information seg- ture of the Link-11 format of one bit error per data word, ment containing control code multitone modulation, For both Each DQPSK modulated tone frames and data _ message HF and UHF the DTS processes a thus contains two information frames. The message format us- 16-tone format (from 935 to bits totaling 30 bits transmitted ing the Picket Reply Message as 2915 Hz) of which 15 tones are at a symbol rate of either 75 an example is shown in Figure 4, differentially encoded, quarter- Baud (2250 bps ~ normal mode The preamble consists of five nary phase modulated (DOPSK). for UHF) or 45.45 Baud (1364 frames containing the Doppler ‘An unmodulated tone at 605 Hz bps ~ slow mode for HF). tone and the synchronization serves as Doppler correction For HF, USB and LSB may be tone. The phase reference and the highest data tone at used either individually or com- frame is composed of a normal 2915 Hz doubles as adata carry- bined to provide frequency di —16-tone composite signal and ing tone and as frame sync. versity. For UHF FM with a peak- provides a phase reference for ‘The 15 data tones carry data peak deviation of +/- 20 kHz is the first data frame of the mes- words of each 24 bits to which —_used. sage.LINK-11 Tactical Data Link WAVECOM Advanced Protocols NACHRICHTENTECHNIK Phase Reference (16 tones) h contro? tages fT N Cc fi \“ +S T | Fae atatalslatofe 2 | a} : 2 ' Pi y \— Preamte —_/ \start A ata message —/EicKet/ (2 tones) ‘Stop Code nome sane (16 tones; 30 bits/frane) Fig. 4 Link-11 Picket Reply Message ‘The NCS interrogation (polling) (Roll Call/DNCS_ Interrogation _two-frame PU address append- messages have a special struc- with Message) is sent. The for- _ed (Figure 5), ‘ture. If polling is combined with mat is the same as the message ‘a message an IWM message displayed in Figure 4 but with 2 PREAMBLE Fe.) SSrae ner | cone DATA MESSAGE | STOP fa | im Naddress’ Code Fig. 5 IWM message If only polling is sent the format is the one shown in Figure 6 (Roll Call/DNCS Interrogation Message). Fig. 6 IM messageLINK-11 Tactical Data Link WAVECOM Advanced Protocols NACHRICHTENTECHNIK LINK-11 Implementation Link-11 offers five modes of DTS with PRM messages. ‘switch to Roll Call mode. operation: Short Broadcast ~ broadcast After having transmitted a poll- # Net Synchronization — the of a single message to all sta- ing message, the NCS will wait NCS sends preamble frames tions. for 15 frames (0.2 s) for the PU to establish initial communi @ Broadcast - continuous se- response. To allow for polling cation, ries of short broadcast mes- through a satellite the waiting ¢ Net Test - connectivity sages separated by two time can be extended toa maxi- checks and line level adjust- frames of dead time. mum of 250 frames (3.33 5). ment with known test When a Link-11 network is first The Link-11 PU address space is patterns. started, the NCS will transmit 6 bit producing 64 octal ad- ‘ Roll Call ~ normal operation _Net Sync followed by Net Test. dresses (00 and 77 octal are in- mode with the NCS interro- After Net Test has completed, valid). Message content is en- gating (polling) the PUs for the pickets report their status to crypted and the message for- data and the PUs responding NCS and NCS orders all PUs to mats are classified. eho tee = ohh ode cw === or a Wavecom’s Link-11 decoder im- is output as 30 bit hexadecimal rors and Doppler shifts are cor- plementation decades message words. The two baudrates (75 rected as well as single-bit er- type, PU address and message and 45.45) are detected auto- rors. contents. The message content matically. Small frequency er-LINK-11 Tactical Data Link Advanced Protocols Since thirty years Wavecor Elektronik AG has de- veloped, manufactured and distributed high quality devices and software for the decoding and retrieval of information from wireless data communication in all frequency bands. The nature of the data com- WAVECOM NACHRICHTENTECHNIK munication may be arbitrary, but commonly con- tains text, images and voice. The company is inter- nationally established within this industry and maintains a longstanding, world-wide network of distributors and business partners. 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