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.


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    Title :

    Autonomous tactical communications possibilities and problems


    Contributors:
    Ahlin, L. (author) / Englund, E. (author) / Jonsson, C. (author) / Soderquist, I. (author) / Zander, J. (author) / Maguire, G.Q. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1997


    Size :

    5 Seiten, 9 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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