Acquisition of Software-Defined Radio Equipment for Adaptive Mobile Networking at the Tactical Edge
Abstract
This DURIP project complements the PI s ongoing project funded by the Army Research Office on adaptive mobile networking at the tactical edge, by enabling more detailed and practical mobile networking experimentation. In our ongoing project, we envision that adaptability of the military mobile communication system could be achieved from an unique social-aware perspective based on properly articulated multi-genre network analysis, which interprets warfighters situational response to battlefield contexts as their social dynamics, which are defined as the temporal and spatial variations of social relationship among warfighters. To address various challenges characterizing such social dynamics in tactical Disconnected, Intermittent, and Limited (DIL) network environment, we focus on precise prediction of warfighters communication needs and designs of adaptive mobile networking strategies, and will evaluate the proposed techniques using a hybrid method of trace-based simulation and testbed experimentation. The proposed equipment acquisition and experimentation, furthermore, is motivated by the limitations of the aforementioned. evaluation methods on emulating practical wireless network: characteristics at the tactical edge. Instead, based on the requested software-defined radio (SDR) and mobile computing equipments, we will migrate the entire network testbed implementation to a combination of SDR radio devices and Android-based mobile devices, and allow system evaluation with real-time PHY and MAC protocols. We will also develop mobile system designs to allow cross-layer mobile networking system evaluation. Our proposed experimentation plan includes controlled experiments to emulate various aspects of practical characteristics of tactical wireless networks, and investigate their impacts on mobile networking performance. We will also evaluate the performance of our proposed networking techniques with different network traffic patterns generated by mobile applications and human behaviors. This experimentation facility will further help explore possibilities of improving the capacity, flexioility and stability of the military mobile communication system, by unleashing tfu: potential of PHY and MAC protocols of existing wireless networks.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 12, 2017
- Source ID
- W911NF1610226
Entities
People
- Wei Gao
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- United States Army
- University of Tennessee