An Investigation of Commercial Off-the-Shelf Wireless in Support of Complex Humanitarian Disaster Operations in the Argentine Army
Abstract
Since the beginning of this century, the Argentine Army has used Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) wireless products, equipment, and communication systems to support Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) operations. The participation of Military, Governmental, and Non-Governmental Organizations in these activities requires more wireless coverage area. These communication systems are an integration of several subsystems that provide an initial Hastily Formed Network (HFN), but they do not provide enough coverage area to support Command and Control centers from different organizations. This thesis explores different solutions to address the lack of coverage area of the current wireless systems. It analyzes new COTS technologies that could be applied to the Argentine Military HFN Centers to satisfy the emerging requirements of HA/DR operations. This research is focused on "Wireless Subsystems," and it gathers data from actual HA/DR experiments and exercises organized by NPS. The experiments provide analytic data from the latest generation equipment that is being tested at the NPS HFN center. The thesis determines the benefits that these different wireless subsystems would provide for HA/DR operations in an Argentine environment based on the information gathered during field exercises and experiments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA567264
Entities
People
- Marcelo R. Perfetti
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School