OPERATIONALIZING A PRIVATE 5G NETWORK FOR EXPEDITIONARY USE

According to the Department of Defense’s (DOD) 2020 Fifth Generation (5G) Strategy, the accelerated deployment of 5G technology is critical to maintaining the nation’s long-term economic and military advantage. 5G wireless technology promises higher data rates, lower latency, and greater customizability than previous generations of cellular technology. This thesis experiments with the functionality and scalability of one 5G network-in-a-box solution for expeditionary use, envisioning a scenario of a forward-deployed tactical unit using this network for internal communications amongst the unit’s personnel, sensors, and platforms. This research ultimately seeks to provide a proof of concept by documenting how non-native Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards can be provisioned to connect to this network, analyzing the diversity of compatible user equipment, reporting on intra-network communication options, providing size, weight, power, and cost considerations, and evaluating the network’s end-to-end throughput given the network’s ciphering algorithm options.

Department dc:contributor.department

Computer Science (CS)

Grantor dc:publisher

Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Snyder, Jacob G.

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Michael, James B.
• Bollmann, Chad A.

Statement dc:rights

• This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10945/74010

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/74010