中文摘要：

航空集群是受生物集群行为启发而产生的一种全新航空作战力量体系,在引发未来航空作战力量运用方 式产生新变革的同时,也将给作为集群成员间联系与沟通纽带的机载战术网络（ ATN, airborne tactical network） 带来全新的挑战.基于航空集群作战应用需求,对航空集群机载战术网络（ ATNAS, airborne tactical network of aeronautic swarm）进行了介绍,分析了航空集群作战应用对航空集群机载战术网络的基本能力需求,总结了将软 件定义网络（ SDN, software defined n e tw o rk ）设计思想运用于航空集群机载战术网络构建的优势;在此基础上, 提出软件定义航空集群机载战术网络（ SDATN-AS,software defined airborne tactical networking for aeronautic swarm）,并对其基本架构进行了阐述;归纳总结了软件定义航空集群机载战术网络的未来研究方向和挑战.对支 持未来航空集群成员间高效信息交互的机载战术网络形态进行了探索,为明确未来机载战术网络的演进方向提供 了参考和借鉴.

英文摘要：

Aeronautic swarm was a new kind of aeronautic operational system inspired by biological swarm behaviors. While leading to a new usage way of future aeronautic operational resources, aeronautic swarm would bring new chal-lenges to the airborne tactical network（ATN）, which was as a bond between the swarm members. Based on the operation-al demand of aeronautic swarm, the airborne tactical network of aeronautic swarm（ATNAS） was introduced, The basic capability requirements of ATNAS were analyzed, and the advantages of applying the SDN network design idea to the construction of ATNAS were also summarized. Then on the bases above, software defined airborne tactical networking for aeronautic swarm（SDATN-AS） was proposed. The basic architecture of SDATN-AS was described, and a series of future research directions and challenges relating to SDATN-AS were also summarized. A new exploration of the ATN,s morphology was made which supported the efficient information interaction of aeronautic swarm members, and reference and guidance were offered for deciding the development orientations of ATN in the future.