In the battlefield of the future, more and more information will be available for making decisions on a tactical level, provided that this information can be dispersed rapidly and accurately. As a consequence, advanced tactical decision support that now is limited to advanced platforms (e.g. combat aircrafts) will become available at a much lower level, ranging from different kind of vehicles, down to the individual soldier by means of ultra-light weight "wearable" equipment. Establishing reliable wireless communications in such a large group of users with unprecedented bandwidth demands and requirements on survivability constitutes a considerable engineering challenge. After a short review of some existing approaches, we investigate the specific engineering challenges and the fundamental limitations of such low level, autonomous communication systems. Further we give an example of a system architecture, harmonized with a proposed structure for third generation commercial wireless systems (e.g. UMTS). Our conclusions show that mainly the distributed computing complexity, device power consumption and the available bandwidth constitute the fundamental problems.
Autonomous tactical communications possibilities and problems
MILCOM, MILCOM, 1997 ; 1 ; 393-397
1997
5 Seiten, 9 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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