Mobile Hot Spots
Abstract
Military users operating at the edge are facing huge challenges with regard to reporting a whole host of tactical activities to include voice reports, accurate and timely position location information (PLI), texting options for unique missions, and imagery and video requirements for high value targets and site exploitation. This large increase in responsibilities at the Battalion, Company, Platoon, Squad, Team, and Special Operations levels requires improved communications capabilities. All requirements grow exponentially due to the proliferation of high-data rate sensors (video, etc), UAVs, and the emergence of the Soldier/Marine as both an operator and a sensor. Thus, the development of tactical tools exploiting these data sources demands new ways of providing this level and sophistication of high bandwidth communications support. This data growth has created a 100-1000x mismatch of data needs and available network capacity. Mobile Hot Spots will provide an analog to the commercial wired solution to exploding high bandwidth requirements that relies on a hierarchical approach using core networks, regional/neighborhood distribution networks, and finally distributed access points. This program will develop the high data rate mobile communications technologies that are required to close the bandwidth gap and create high-capacity and secure wireless technologies by exploiting advances in high-frequency and new security paradigms using RF, millimeter wave (MMW) and/or optical transmission. This work will leverage advances in critical system technologies in Optical, MMW, RF Combined Link Experiment (ORCLE), and SMART (both budgeted in this PE), and programs in PE 0602716E, Project ELT-01. This effort will also leverage commercial off the shelf short range, high speed communications access portals and scalable high data rate networking technologies. Trade-offs between scaling capacity, high data rate, communications overhead, system overhead (size, weight, and power), and mobility will be addressed. The Mobile Hot Spots program is targeted to transition to the Army, Marine Corps Expeditionary Forces.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 1562bab63ec8bd386a0088b3bc789cad