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Title | ||
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From Spectrum Agility to Network Agility: Proactive and Adaptive Reconfiguration for Reliable Communication in Tactical Networks |
Abstract | ||
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In tactical networks reliable communication is a vital military issue that needs to be resolved. A large number of research efforts are currently focused on providing radios with spectrum agility. However, in many cases, spectrum agility is not enough to achieve reliable communications in tactical networks. Instead, mission success often requires network agility -- cognition across the protocol layers for environmental awareness and autonomous reconfiguration -- which is still an unsolved challenge to our best knowledge, and needs to be addressed. Toward this, we have developed a proactive and adaptive cross-layer reconfiguration (PACR) framework for autonomous network adaptation through network monitoring, proactive prediction, network performance characterization, root-cause analysis, and cross-layer negotiation. Although PACR is generically applicable to any radio network, for validation it has been prototyped and demonstrated on two specific networks -- a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware testbed using IEEE 802.11 WiFi devices, and a military radio testbed using Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Local Area Waveform (LAW) radios. Through tests and demonstrations, it has been shown that our solution provides cross-layer adaptation demonstrating spectrum as well as network agility, resulting in mission success through cognitive networking. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2013 | 10.1109/MILCOM.2013.282 | MILCOM |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
military communication,protocols,radio networks,telecommunication network reliability,wireless lan,cots,ieee 802.11 wifi devices,pacr framework,win-t law,autonomous network adaptation,autonomous reconfiguration,cognitive networking,commercial off-the-shelf hardware testbed,cross-layer negotiation,environmental awareness,military radio testbed,network agility,network monitoring,network performance characterization,proactive and adaptive cross-layer reconfiguration,proactive prediction,protocol layers,radio network,root-cause analysis,spectrum agility,tactical network reliable communication,warfighter information network-tactical local area waveform radio,cognitive networks,cross-layer design,network adaptation,reconfiguration,tactical networks | Computer science,Network agility,Network architecture,Testbed,Computer network,Network monitoring,Protocol stack,Control reconfiguration,Network performance,Cognitive network | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
4 | 0.45 | 4 |
Authors | ||
9 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| hui zeng | 1 | 4 | 0.45 |
| Hongmei Deng | 2 | 501 | 33.12 |
| ke meng | 3 | 4 | 0.45 |
| song luo | 4 | 4 | 0.45 |
| xiang yu | 5 | 4 | 0.45 |
| apurva n mody | 6 | 5 | 1.31 |
| M. J. Sherman | 7 | 110 | 7.09 |
| jude muller | 8 | 4 | 0.45 |
| zhenxing wang | 9 | 4 | 0.45 |