Interoperability Considerations Research Articles

NATO’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy and Interoperability Challenges: The Case of Turkey

ABSTRACT The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly changed military applications, creating new competitive advantages and shifting the global balance of power. This article examines NATO’s AI strategy and the associated interoperability challenges, with a particular focus on Turkey. NATO’s AI strategy seeks to enhance interoperability among its member states by fostering the integration of AI technologies into military capabilities. However, achieving this goal is complicated by the varying levels of AI technological advancement, divergent national AI-military strategies and differing geopolitical considerations among member countries. Using Turkey as a case study, this paper explores how the rapid development of AI-based military drones contributes to Turkey’s strategic autonomy and enhances regime resilience while also highlighting certain interoperability considerations within NATO. The analysis underlines the need for a cohesive approach to AI integration that addresses these disparities to maintain NATO’s collective defence capabilities.

Pragmatic, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology: Paving the Future for Healthcare

Background: Blockchain and distributed ledger technology is a disruptive force in healthcare. Methods: This article provides a globally relevant, interdisciplinary perspective intended to aid disparate group of actors, participants, and users that represent the diverse stakeholders of an increasingly complex and technologically reliant healthcare system. Domain expertise reinforced by literature published via industry, technical, and academic venues was used to inform these perspectives. Results: Key characteristics of blockchain and distributed ledger technology are highlighted and framed for a readership ranging from healthcare executive to policy makers to researchers. Antecedent application of blockchain in the financial sector is explored followed by the technical, security, and interoperability considerations specific to healthcare. Conclusion: Blockchain remains an emerging technology both fraught with unanticipated challenges and the promise of unrealized potential in healthcare.
 Keywords: Blockchain, Healthcare, Innovation, Adoption, Global, Interoperability

IP/MPLS networks with hardened pipes: service concepts, traffic engineering and design considerations

The concept of embedding a hard pipe within IP/MPLS network architecture has recently been proposed in IETF RFC 7625 contribution as an advanced networking architecture to address the need of many large organizations and utility companies for TDM-like leased line services with end-to-end guaranteed bandwidth, low delay and high reliability in order to support pervasive mission-critical applications. In this paper, we carry an in-depth investigation of the traffic engineering and design considerations that need to be taken into account when deploying hard pipe strata in IP/MPLS networks. In particular, we focus on LSP provisioning, QoS management, time synchronization, availability, delay/jitter requirements and interoperability considerations. We discuss some of the design and traffic engineering alternatives, critique their relative merits and propose some recommendations to enhance bandwidth usage, provide support for delivering end-to-end QoS and maximize revenues. Finally we propose future research prospects in the search of additional traffic engineering mechanisms to further optimize resource allocations, bandwidth usage and SLA compliance.

Interoperability Considerations in the Light of Endowment of the Romanian Engineer Armed Forces

Abstract During the time he held the chair of United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld argued that it had become fashionable for military strategists to develop and launch increasingly sophisticated concepts, without technical and financial support to implement them. Based on this statement, it was noticed that the same approach was applied by some Romanian military strategists, who have rushed to adopt certain concepts from our counterparts that belong to western countries and implement them in our national legislation without taking into account all the necessary resources (human, financial, technical etc.) for their application. In this respect, one example could be the interoperability and its derivatives, the main focus of the present paper.

A unified approach to moving-image coding for most media and most applications

Developments in picture coding for broadcast television, multimedia workstations, and other applications, have led to a movement to develop source- and channel-coding methods that would simplify interoperability between different formats. Interoperability considerations include not only equipment cost and complexity, but also the image quality achieved when pictures originating in one application are used in another. In this paper, we attempt to set forth the requirements for such universal coding systems and to explore new and old ideas that can be applied to their design. Among the potentially useful techniques are multiresolution source coding, channel coders that permit various decoders to use more or less of the transmitted information, and special modulation/transmission methods, such as orthogonal frequency-division multiplex and single-frequency networks, which are designed to deal with the particular problems of terrestrial broadcasting. One of the main messages that we hope to deliver in this paper is that further progress in this field requires at least as much attention to channel coding as has heretofore been applied to source coding. This is as true for computer-related applications as it is to broadcasting; it is highly likely that the computer of the future will have an antenna.

Interoperability considerations for digital HDTV

It is agreed that digital high-definition television (HDTV) systems have the potential for facilitating interoperability among high-resolution image systems. Selection of an advanced television system that will incorporate attributes needed for interoperability, and harmonize the interchange of still and moving images from diverse sources is discussed. Carefully designed headers and descriptors embedded within the digital HDTV data are described. These can be used to identify the image data to current and future receivers and incorporated within the protocols of telecommunications networks. >

Interoperability through effective information exchange standards

The objective of this paper is to develop an awareness of the existence of, the need for, and the emphasis currently being placed on Interoperability, with an understanding of the derivation of Interoperability Standards to make effective use of advancing hardware and software system technology. To accomplish this objective, the paper discusses the definition of specific terms related to Interoperability, some of the Interoperability problem areas, a walk through of current standards derivations methodology being used in the jintaccs Program, and consideration of the standards validation process. The paper also contains a brief analysis of lessons learned from past Interoperability programs and an assessment of how Interoperability considerations affect a participating project.