The Base Zone Protection Problem

Abstract

The "base zone" in combat operations refers to an area that is secured against intrusion and attacks from insurgents. During any type of military operation, the number of sensor assets that are available for detecting intrusions are limited. Thus, the size of a base zone is limited by the number of available sensors, and how those sensors are deployed. Depending on the assumptions made in modeling the coverage properties and the terrain of area being covered, the size and shape of the base zone can vary widely. The base zone protection problem is the task of determining the largest area that can be protected given a limited number of sensors. The base zone protection problem is related to the problem of determining sensor coverage. In this paper, we look at the various variations of the base zone protection problem, with a range of difficulty in their solution.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA503457

Entities

People

  • Amotz B. Noy
  • Andi Toce
  • Dinesh Verma
  • Lance Kaplan
  • Mark Nixon
  • Theodore Brown

Organizations

  • IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acoustic Detectors
  • Algorithms
  • Boundaries
  • Calculus Of Variations
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Equations
  • Governments
  • Intrusion
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Military Research
  • Models
  • Monitoring
  • New York
  • Probability
  • Shape

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