Network on Target: Remotely Configured Adaptive Tactical Networks

Abstract

The emerging tactical networks represent complex network-centric systems, in which multiple sensors, unmanned vehicles, and geographically distributed units of highly mobile decision makers, transfer and analyze data while on the move. The network could easily scale up to hundreds of cooperating nodes, providing tactical extension to the system-of-systems environment of Global Information Grid. The node mobility as well as ad hoc network topology reconfiguration becomes a powerful control option, which network operators or intelligent management agents could apply to provide for self-forming, self-healing behavior. This in turn requires new techniques for adaptive remote management of mobile wireless nodes; their rapid remote or autonomous reconfiguration at both physical and application layers, subject to changing operational requirements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA463209

Entities

People

  • Alex B. Bordetsky
  • Eugene Bourakov

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Communication Channels
  • Computer Networks
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Links
  • Mesh Networks
  • Mobile Phones
  • Network Topology
  • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • Radio Links
  • Tactical Networks
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Autonomy - UAVs