Power Analysis of an Enterprise Wireless Communication Architecture

Abstract

Technological advancements in Software Defined Radios (SDR), high-speed serial buses, and high-performance computing systems have brought us a power reduction breakthrough in military wireless communications. This thesis develops and analyzes a model to demonstrate that an enterprise computing architecture for Software Defined Radios results in significant power savings between 11% and 13% under ordinary operational loads. The thesis presents easy-to-understand mathematical power consumption models and simulations of general military communications systems in an Expeditionary Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) scenario. The comparison of regular versus enterprise SDR architectures exposes the power savings realized in the Enterprise Wireless Communications (EWC) architecture.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1046832

Entities

People

  • Howen Q. Fernando

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Command Control Communications
  • Communication Systems
  • Computers
  • Energy Consumption
  • Information Warfare
  • Internet Of Things
  • Military Communications
  • Military Research
  • Modulators
  • Radio Equipment
  • Simulations
  • Software Defined Radio
  • Tactical Communications
  • Tactical Networks
  • Warfare
  • Wireless Communications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Research Science/Academic Research

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control