A Lightweight C2 Service Invocation Method Based on HTTP Proxy

SOA and Web Services technologies have been increasingly applied to network centric C2. In this paper, a service‐oriented C2 software architecture is firstly proposed based on SOA ideas and Web services technology to provide framework and guidance to service integration in future service‐oriented C2 systems, in which software and capability of C2 systems often are wrapped web services so as to implement C2 function and information exchanging through service invocation. Traditional WS invocation is implemented through SOAP via HTTP. Due to security and efficiency problems about SOAP/XML/HTTP, how to implement service invocation satisfying military requirement has become a hotspot problem concerning future C2. Usual methods solving the above invocation problems often have higher complexity, more enormous load and longer develop cycle. Considering security requirement in military WAN environment, a lightweight service invocation method based on HTTP proxy is proposed in this paper. A HTTP proxy is deployed in border of LAN system, in which web services messages are intercepted and SOAP is transported through transport protocol accorded with military standard instead of HTTP in WAN. The experiments demonstrate that proposed method which can meet security and timeliness requirements in military environment is effective and feasible.