Underwater acoustic communications, especially from a single point-to-point link perspective, have been studied extensively in the past few decades. Underwater networking issues have begun to attract the interest of researchers as well, and represent a fertile research area which can be expected to grow in the future. Bringing the study of acoustic communications systems to the networking level...

The Rapidly Deployable Radio Network (RDRN) is an architecture and experimental system to develop and evaluate hardware and software components suitable for implementing mobile, rapidly deployable, and adaptive wireless communications systems. The driving application for the RDRN is the need to quickly establish a communications infrastructure following a natural disaster, during a law enforcem...

Dr. James Zeidler is a research scientist/senior lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He has more than 200 technical publications and thirteen patents for communication, signal processing, data compression techniques, and electronic devices. Dr. Zeidler was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1994 for his technical contributions to adaptive ...

Joint Warfare System (JWARS) is a campaign-level model of military operations. User will include the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Joint Staff, the Services, and the US Warfighting Commands. Program requirements documents specify implementation that fosters insight into cause and effect relationships encountered by military forces. JWARS will support multi-billion dollar resourc...

Communications is a critical enabling capability that is interwoven into every facet of every military operation. Assessing what communication capability is most valuable to the operation is a vital planning requirement that currently resides in several processes that produce differing outcomes within the DoD. This article examines these planning processes, particularly the capability-based app...

Military communications capabilities have evolved under stringent requirements for reliability and security. Today, these legacy systems need to support Network Enabled Capabilities (NEC) but are challenged to provide the bandwidth and interoperability common in civilian systems. Internet Protocol (IP) has become the universal standard for flexible networking and the pre-requisite for advanced ...

There has been a growing interest to incorporate Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) in various military applications. UUVs can be easily deployed in an area of interest such as offshore fleet operating regions and littoral penetration zones to collect critical data. In many military scenarios, collected sensor data have to be transmitted to a host station which could be a land base station, a ...

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Title of Document: POINTING, ACQUISITION, AND TRACKING FOR DIRECTIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS John Robertson Rzasa, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Directed By: Professor Christopher C. Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Directional wireless communications networks (DWNs) are expected to become a workhorse of the military, as they provide great network capacity in hos...

The concept of spectrum eficient, Paul K. Lee, Jeffrey A. Rudin Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company PTP1-2C39, P. O. BOX 868 Nashua, NH 03061 anti-jam (A/J), high @equency (HF) communications is discussed in this paper. The HF concept is intended for mobile, beyond line qf sight (BLOS) military communications for use in the 21st century. Spectrum ef>ciency and fast jiequency hopping ofler opport...