An Innovative Approach to Minimizing Bandwidth Usage for Mobile Military Database Synchronization
Abstract
The goal of our research is to recommend a systems approach and architecture, based upon solid network engineering principles and mathematics, to retrieve battlefield current database information from a remote database over an intermittent wireless communications link to a handheld device. As part of this research, several approaches are being attempted with performance comparisons between each. This research will tackle the first three of the four hurdles to the system stated above. We will explore methods to do database retrievals and/or synchronizations with large remote databases over a wireless link. The impact of dead zones and periods of time without connectivity will be examined and a solution explored. A means by which critical information can be pre-cached on the user's device will be examined as one possible solution. All solutions will be accomplished within the size/weight/power restrictions of a handheld computing device. For this research, commercial data transmission protocols will be employed. The military has successfully adapted commercial communications standards in the past and added sufficient security methods to these techniques. Therefore, our use of commercial protocols in our model accurately reflects a realistic implementation scheme for a possible fielded system.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA432119
Entities
People
- Matthew J. Zieniewicz
- Ron Szymanski
- Thanh H. Nguyen
Organizations
- United States Army Communications-Electronics Command