Du-Hwan Kim, Kyuman Lee, Munyoung Park, Jaesung Lim
{"title":"UAV-Based Localization Scheme for Battlefield Environments","authors":"Du-Hwan Kim, Kyuman Lee, Munyoung Park, Jaesung Lim","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2013.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2013.102","url":null,"abstract":"Considering the emphasis on network-centric concepts of warfare in recent battlefield environments, the study of location information has become more important. This is because most military weapons use GNSSs (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) such as GPS and Galileo to track position information. Situations in which it is impossible to use these systems have been increased by many factors such as jamming attacks, reception failure, and politics. In this study, we propose a localization method that uses UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and TDOA (Time Differential of Arrival) method to determine receiver position in situations in which using GNSS is locally impossible. We also consider the building of a slim-budget localization system independent of GNSS and how to operate it efficiently. The simulation results show that our scheme is applicable on battlefield, the feasibility is proved by the accuracy, the DOP (Dilution of Precise) and the coverage.","PeriodicalId":379382,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 2013 - 2013 IEEE Military Communications Conference","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128546469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qi Wang, Hao Feng, L. Cimini, L. Greenstein, D. Chan, A. Hedayat
{"title":"Sparse Coding Quantization for Downlink MU-MIMO with Limited CSI Feedback","authors":"Qi Wang, Hao Feng, L. Cimini, L. Greenstein, D. Chan, A. Hedayat","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2013.216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2013.216","url":null,"abstract":"A novel quantization method, sparse coding quantization (SCQ), is proposed for downlink multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. Compared to conventional vector quantization (VQ), SCQ utilizes a linear combination of several codewords rather than a single one to represent the channel matrix. Both analytical and simulation results reveal that the proposed technique can achieve the same sum rate performance as VQ at a reasonable cost in feedback overhead. Thus, SCQ is more practical because it significantly reduces the time and space complexity for generating, searching and storing the codebook. % The net capacity, which indicates the tradeoff between sum rate and overhead, is also studied.","PeriodicalId":379382,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 2013 - 2013 IEEE Military Communications Conference","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116930933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medium Earth Orbit Ka Band Satellite Communications System","authors":"S. Blumenthal","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2013.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2013.54","url":null,"abstract":"Medium earth orbit satellites deliver fiber-like low latency to underserved locations. This paper describes the architecture of an efficient cost effective low latency medium earth orbit constellation using high power steerable Ka band spot beams. A seamless error-free satellite-to-satellite handover using dual tracking antennas and dual receiver modems has been developed to deliver continuous real-time performance for these interactive time-sensitive applications. For less delay sensitive applications, single tracking antennas provide high-speed ISR data transfer from sensor platforms to processing center and the rapid dissemination of processed intelligence information back to forward command posts and smaller groups.","PeriodicalId":379382,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 2013 - 2013 IEEE Military Communications Conference","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116068598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alternatives for Supporting Multiple Cryptographically-Isolated User Groups in Frequency-Hopping Systems","authors":"F. J. Block, D. Qiu, IV ThomasC.Royster","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2013.176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2013.176","url":null,"abstract":"Most traditional coded and interleaved frequency-hop systems either avoid multiple-access interference through the use of orthogonal hopping patterns or tolerate the MAI that results from non-orthogonal hopping patterns. While the former method typically has better performance, all the users' hopping patterns must be coordinated to maintain orthogonality. Because the processing gain of frequency-hop systems relies on the secrecy of the hopping pattern, having a potentially large number of users with knowledge of coordinated hopping patterns may be undesirable. Rather, multiple smaller groups that are cryptographically isolated from each other are preferred. In this paper, we discuss alternatives for supporting multiple such cryptographically-isolated user groups in frequency-hopping spread spectrum systems. Tradeoffs among interference rejection, data rate, and number of supportable users are considered for a variety of channel access schemes and hopping pattern designs. In addition, the impact of improved receiver capabilities, such as multiuser detection, to the trade space is investigated.","PeriodicalId":379382,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 2013 - 2013 IEEE Military Communications Conference","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116152022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Map-Based Method for Geolocation in Multipath Environments","authors":"Jared Baker, T. Pratt","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2013.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2013.19","url":null,"abstract":"A geolocation approach applicable to multipath environments is considered that leverages map data and differential delays from channel impulse responses measured at one or more receiver locations. Measurements are made at one or more receiver sites without requirements for time synchronization. The approach requires knowledge of the receiver locations and plan-view map data that includes 2D outlines of major reflecting structures such as buildings. The approach can accommodate both cooperative and noncooperative sources, contingent on accurate estimation of differential delays contained within the channel impulse response. Simulation examples employing a map with multiple reflecting structures are considered to demonstrate the technique. Results are computed for a case involving the use of multiple simultaneous receivers that surround the source. Ambiguity regions are shown for up to five receiver locations, as well as for the combined results from all receiver ambiguity maps. Since the ambiguity regions with this approach are different than traditional ambiguity patterns, the technique can potentially be fused with other geolocation approaches to improve ambiguity resolution.","PeriodicalId":379382,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 2013 - 2013 IEEE Military Communications Conference","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126652816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hybrid Combination of N-Continuous and Null-Space Precoding for Out-of-Band Emission Suppression","authors":"Zihao You, Juan Fang, I. Lu","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2013.266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2013.266","url":null,"abstract":"Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based cognitive radio (CR) systems suffer from the large out-of-band emission (OOBE) that interferes with other users. Among the schemes that have been proposed to reduce the OOBE, precoding techniques encode the input data vectors before the inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) process, and decode them at the receiver after the fast Fourier transform (FFT) process. They provide significant OOBE suppression and do not cause any degradation of bit error rate (BER) performance. Therefore, two existing precoding techniques, which in this paper are called SVD precoding and N-continuous precoding, are investigated in this paper. Then a combined approach which maintains the merits of these two techniques is proposed. Numerical results show that, no matter whether there is a cyclic prefix (CP) or not, the proposed method gives significant further improvement on OOBE suppression and almost no extra degradation in the system performances such as the increase of BER or peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) than either of the two original techniques.","PeriodicalId":379382,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 2013 - 2013 IEEE Military Communications Conference","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126990991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REAP: Delta Compression for Publish/Subscribe Web Services in MANETs","authors":"E. Skjervold, Magnus Skjegstad","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2013.251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2013.251","url":null,"abstract":"NATO has identified Web services as a key enabler for its network enabled capability, as it facilitates the use of commercial off-the-shelf components as well as easy integration and interoperability. Request/response-based Web services are widespread, but publish/subscribe-based services are gaining traction and may be especially well suited for use in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). However, Soap-based Web services of all types introduce considerable communication overhead, and Web services standards for publish/subscribe, such as WS-Notification, add additional overhead. To enable use within the tactical domain and on disadvantaged grids, optimizations must be done. For MANETs on the tactical level this is especially true due to challenges with routing and convergence caused by mobility and topology changes. In this paper we present a novel proof-of-concept protocol called REAP (Reliable and Efficient Ad-hoc network publish/subscribe protocol), which builds on and extends our previous work with delta compression and epidemic publish/subscribe in ad-hoc networks. REAP allows for efficient one-to-many and many-to-many Soap-based communication in MANETs, and by not requiring any underlying routing protocol it circumvents issues associated with routing and convergence. By utilizing REAP, significantly better message compression rates was achieved for all evaluated file formats compared to Zlib in our experiments. Because message reconstruction produces exact copies of the original document, REAP supports Web service security standards based on digital signatures and content hashing, such as WS-Security. Our MANET simulator experiments show that the protocol demonstrates highly efficient data dissemination and resilience to a high degree of mobility.","PeriodicalId":379382,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 2013 - 2013 IEEE Military Communications Conference","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125923665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobile Ad Hoc Networking (MANET) Formulation Considered Harmful","authors":"R. Krishnan, Zhensheng Zhang","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2013.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2013.33","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) is a narrow problem formulation that -- even in its most general form in current practice -- is an anachronism mismatched to warfighter needs that has held back progress in tactical networking. We discuss some of the limitations of the current MANET formulation and recommend orienting the tactical networks research agenda toward self-heterogeneous information networks with globally large extent along with a corresponding alignment of acquisition process toward tactical networking as a service.","PeriodicalId":379382,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 2013 - 2013 IEEE Military Communications Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125956087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving H.264 Scalable Video Delivery for Multi-homed Terminals Using Multiple Links in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks","authors":"A. L. Ramaboli, O. Falowo, H. Chan","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2013.184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2013.184","url":null,"abstract":"Emerging user terminals come equipped with multiple network interfaces that can be configured to simultaneously support an application that requires more bandwidth resources than a single network can provide. The application can enjoy the support by striping data units across the different interfaces for parallel transmission to the receiver. However, this requires efficient multipath transmission mechanisms to assure improved performance. In this paper, we focus on parallel transmission of scalable video using multiple links in heterogeneous wireless networks. Recent research efforts on multipath scalable video streaming have focused on delay characteristics of the available wireless paths to optimize video playback. However, delay-based solutions risk significant loss of video packets, as the packets may be scheduled for transmission over low delay but lossy paths. Packet loss can lead to undesirable effects in scalable video, where the loss of a video packet can propagate to dependent packets, thus resulting in perceptible video artifacts. We propose a new multipath scalable video streaming model that considers not only delay but also loss characteristics to improve quality of the multipath streaming process. We show through trace-driven simulations that our solution outperforms other solutions in terms of video quality measured using peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity index (SSIM).","PeriodicalId":379382,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 2013 - 2013 IEEE Military Communications Conference","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125992449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physical Layer Adaptation for Packet Radio Systems with Higher Layer Fountain Coding","authors":"Jason D. Ellis, M. Pursley","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2013.268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2013.268","url":null,"abstract":"We present low-complexity adaptive transmission protocols for use in tactical packet radio systems that employ higher layer fountain coding. Our protocols respond to fading and other time-varying propagation losses by adapting the modulation and channel coding used to transmit packets over the wireless channel. The operation of our protocols is controlled by simple receiver statistics that can be obtained during the demodulation of received packets. No pilot symbols, training, channel measurements, or channel estimation techniques are required by our protocols.","PeriodicalId":379382,"journal":{"name":"MILCOM 2013 - 2013 IEEE Military Communications Conference","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127472584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}