A Cognitive Policy Management Framework for DoD

Abstract

Cognitive Radios and Networks have become a focus of attention commercially and within DoD. Technologies such as Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) can greatly improve spectrum utilization and can even address issues such as Anti-Jam. One of the most difficult tasks ahead of us is to manage these cognitive systems. Rules or "policies" must be used to control them, but these policies must be balanced with the intelligence innate within cognitive systems so as not to thwart performance. Typical network policies use an event-condition-action (ECA) format. But cognitive policies are often written using a "permissive / restrictive" format that is declarative stating the type of behavior desired rather than how to implement the behavior. How such policies are developed, distributed, and maintained is an active area of investigation within DoD. This paper will present work investigating the components required in a DoD system to implement a policy management framework for DSA systems and it extensibility to other cognitive systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA535947

Entities

People

  • Andrew Comba
  • Donya He
  • Howard Mcdonald
  • Matthew E. Sherman

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognitive Radio
  • Command And Control
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Markup Languages
  • Military Communications
  • Models
  • Monitoring
  • Networks
  • Radio Equipment
  • Regulators
  • Situational Awareness
  • Spectra
  • Standards
  • Xml

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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