Content-Based Mobile Edge Networking (CBMEN)
Abstract
The CBMEN program's goal is to provide tactical warfighters operating at the edge with interactive, on-demand access to relevant information and a greater ability for real-time sharing of new operational content. This content can include images, video, maps, situational awareness, and command and control information. Advances in communications technologies are enabling high-capacity communications to the edge. However, the current centralized or regional storage and dissemination of information presents reliability and capacity challenges with distributing relevant information to users at the edge. Commercial industry has developed approaches to the autonomous dissemination of high demand information by using distributed servers and advanced networking and information database technologies, combined with highly-reliable fixed networking infrastructure with embedded complex information exploitation tools. The commercial system is enabled by infrastructure (e.g. fiber optic networks) that is not available to the warfighter at the edge. This program will leverage commercial technologies to develop, prototype, and demonstrate the networking technologies and information dissemination techniques needed to enable efficient and robust content distribution using dynamic, mobile, ad hoc military networks. CBMEN will be installed and demonstrated on existing radios. Capabilities from this effort will transition to the DoD.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- a5a599c416436516a409154ab27c62db