Hybrid MANET using Directed Beams for Highly Reliable Delivery of Critical Information
Abstract
We propose a combined effort of simulation and experimentation to lead to practical, deployable networks withwireless communication"s links that use free space optical (FSO narrow beams. We will develop innovative newomnidirectional optical receivers that will allow nodes to find each other without the need for discovery radios. This willbe carried out with wider FSO beams that transmit low data rate platform orientation information. Once nodes haveexchanged their position and orientation information low SWaPC transcei"vers using narrow beams will allowcommunication within the network at high data rates, potentially to many Gb/s. Our proposed mobil""e ad hoc network (MANET) will use extremely agile beam steering, coupled with sophisticated coding, so as to allow reliable delivery" of critical/high priority data. We will develop new optical transceivers to expand our idea to autonomously configurable FSO networ"ks, and carry out experiments on small networks with a few ground nodes and a few airborne UAS nodes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Dec 20, 2017
- Source ID
- N000141812039
Entities
People
- Christopher Davis
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Maryland