A Vision Toward an Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT): Autonomous Classifying Sensor Network

Abstract

The focus of Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) is to provide situational awareness of the battlefield utilizing a network of interconnected sensors, actuators, and analytical devices. The US Army Research Laboratory's Tactical Network Assurance Branch developed a narrative of using IoBT to deploy multiple sensor nodes in an unknown or potentially hostile environment in which the system performs basic classification, identification of allies and adversaries, and inter-node communication via ad-hoc wireless network. Various types of sensors resulted in more robust classification due to multiple sensor data sources of complementary modalities. Sleeping algorithms extended sensor-node viability while maintaining network activity. Development of countermeasures to denial-of-service and distributed denial-of-service attacks were also explored in this work.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1064107

Entities

People

  • Andrew Toth
  • Egan Mcclave
  • John Zhu
  • Quan Pham
  • Ryan Sheatsley
  • Sam Reinhart
  • Sujay Polineni

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Communication Channels
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Denial Of Service Attack
  • Detectors
  • Energy Consumption
  • Heterogeneous Networks
  • Identification
  • Internet Of Things
  • Mesh Networks
  • Military Research
  • Network Science
  • Personal Area Networks
  • Sensor Networks
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.