{"title":"Military use of commercial satellites - a planning perspective","authors":"A. Murad, R.E. Fahrmeier","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290151","url":null,"abstract":"The significant increase in military and military support activities in the Middle East and South-West Asia has resulted in an increased demand for satellite capacity, a significant portion of which is being met by well-positioned commercial satellites located over the Indian Ocean, Africa, and South-West Asia. There are a number of challenges faced by satellite network planners who are asked to bridge this gap between military and commercial satellite communications (SATCOM) planning in the design and operation of military-support traffic on commercial satellites, and handle circumstances which call for certain special considerations which are not the norm in either the commercial industry, or the military SATCOM (MILSATCOM) world. This paper discusses some real-world planning challenges, and how they sometimes require the bending or breaking of conventional planning rules to come up with feasible plans.","PeriodicalId":435910,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM 2003.","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128750400","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":"Packet design for communication under asynchronous interference","authors":"C. Budianu, Lang Tong","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290373","url":null,"abstract":"The asynchronous interference arises in many wireless multiple access communication systems. This paper considers the problem of placing the training symbols within the data packets when these packets are subject to asynchronous interference. The performance measure considered is the achievable data transmission rate for a system that uses coherent reception using a training-based channel estimate. An upper and a lower bound for the achievable rate are obtained. By optimizing the placement the achievable rate can be doubled. Also, if the placement that provides optimum channel estimation performance is used, the data rate loss is negligible; thus the effect of the placement on the data rate is mainly through the efficiency of channel estimation.","PeriodicalId":435910,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM 2003.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130372916","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}
G. Comparetto, J. Schwartz, N. Schult, J. Marshall
{"title":"A communications analysis tool set that accounts for the attenuation due to foliage, buildings, and ground effects","authors":"G. Comparetto, J. Schwartz, N. Schult, J. Marshall","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290433","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to describe a communications analysis tool, referred to as OPAR, that can be used in support of both in-field demonstrations and large-scale simulation activities. Using overhead imagery as a backdrop, OPAR provides a graphical user interface that allows the user to quantify the source/destination path attenuation in a mobile, ad-hoc communications network, taking into account obstructions due to foliage and buildings.","PeriodicalId":435910,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM 2003.","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129185143","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":"Blind spreading sequence discovery for DS-CDMA signal interception","authors":"A. Haghighat, M. Soleymani","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290336","url":null,"abstract":"A scheme based on multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm for blind discovery of spreading sequences of active users in a synchronous multiuser code division multiplex access (CDMA) is suggested. The scheme is blind in the sense that does not require prior knowledge of the spreading codes. Spreading codes and users power are acquired by the scheme. Eigenvalue decomposition (EVD) is performed on the received signal, and then all the valid possible signature sequences are projected onto the subspaces. However as a result of this process, some false answers are also produced and the ambiguity seems un-resolvable. Our approach is to apply a transformation derived from the results of the subspace decomposition on the received signal and then to inspect their statistics. It is shown the second order statistics of the transformed signal provides a reliable means for removing the false answers.","PeriodicalId":435910,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM 2003.","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123884651","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":"Sensor networks with mobile agents","authors":"L. Tong, Qing Zhao, S. Adireddy","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290187","url":null,"abstract":"Architecture for large scale low power sensor network is proposed. Referred to as sensor networks with mobile agents (SENMA), SENMA exploit node redundancies by introducing mobile agents that communicate opportunistically with a large field of sensors. The addition of mobile agents shifts computationally intensive tasks away from primitive sensors to more powerful mobile agents, which enables energy efficient operations under severely limited power constraints. An opportunistic ALOHA random access coupled with a direct sequence spread spectrum physical layer is proposed. A comparison of SENMA with a flat ad hoc sensor network shows a substantial gain in energy efficiency.","PeriodicalId":435910,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM 2003.","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121276054","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":"Adaptation of modulation and coding for fading channels based on a block demodulation algorithm","authors":"D.M. Zook, C. Baum","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290083","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile communication systems can benefit greatly from the use of adaptive signaling. Adaptive signaling can provide a higher data rate than fixed-rate signaling techniques while maintaining an acceptable bit error rate (BER). This paper explores the use of a block demodulation algorithm for providing the basis for adaptation in fading channels. The modulation parameters are adjusted based the receiver's implicit estimate of the reliability of the current block. An adaptation algorithm has been analyzed in which the receiver estimates the current fading rate, adjusts decision thresholds correspondingly and compares them to reliability information generated by the receiver. The adaptive algorithm has shown greatly improved performance compared to fixed-rate schemes over a wide range of channel parameters.","PeriodicalId":435910,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM 2003.","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114373388","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":"Priority-based optical network protection and restoration with application to DOD networks","authors":"D. Choi, D. Taylor, R. Seibel","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290118","url":null,"abstract":"Considering network outages resulting from terrorist activities and natural/man-made disasters, deploying traditional, pre-planned linear or ring protection schemes for ultra-high capacity optical links will not meet the global infrastructure grid-bandwidth expansion's (GIG-BE) strict survivability requirements. However, new optical-networking technologies and evolving control-plane standards like generalized multi-protocol label switching (GMPLS) provide the user with intelligent, near-real-time protection and dynamic network-restoration services. Based upon the users' pre-selection of up to eight traffic priorities, GMPLS protocols quickly detect single or multiple failures, and automatically calculate an optimal recovery route for optical or sub-optical end-to-end paths. Paths are protected with a protection scheme consistent with the users' traffic priority. If the network cannot provide 100% restoration, GMPLS based protocols give precedence to high-priority traffic to spare bandwidth and, if necessary, preempts traffic of lower priority.","PeriodicalId":435910,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM 2003.","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121613324","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":"GBS next generation architecture","authors":"B. Bennett, C. Holt, M. Skowrunski, C. Ellis","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290157","url":null,"abstract":"The global broadcast service (GBS) provides a worldwide, high-capacity, one-way transmission of classified and unclassified video, imagery, and other information as required to support joint military forces in garrison, in transit, and in theater. GBS enables real-time information product delivery to the warfighter by providing satellite resources that are shared based on CINC/JTF commanders' priorities, operational locations, and the platform capabilities of the deployed users. The rapid technological evolution of the commercial satellite Internet service provider (ISP) market over the past decade has enabled the GBS JPO and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to re-evaluate the suitability of commercial technology and equipment for an enhanced GBS architecture. Led by the GBS JPO systems engineering team, the DoD is subsequently planning to perform a technology refresh of the GBS architecture, focusing on DVB open standards, IP data transport, and commercial communications technology. This technical re-design of the GBS architecture will significantly enhance the capabilities and real-time services that GBS provides to the deployed warfighter. This paper explores the design principles, engineering strategies, and key technologies that will enable the transition of GBS to a next generation military SATCOM system.","PeriodicalId":435910,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM 2003.","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124412824","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":"An integrated and distributed scheduling and power control algorithm for maximizing network utility for wireless multihop networks","authors":"J.C. Fang, R. Rao","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290304","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we solve the resource allocation problem of maximizing the sum of transmitter utilities subject to QoS and peak power constraints per link in a wireless multihop network. Each node in the network has an associated utility function that models its valuation of its data rate (or signal power) in terms of its transmission power and multiaccess interference. By explicitly accounting for multiaccess interference in the utility function, our framework can model and solve a wide variety of resource allocation problems. Each link in the network is subject to a minimum and a maximum data rate constraint and each transmitter is subject to a peak power constraint. We present an iterative power control algorithm that solves the above problem using a penalty function approach and prove its convergence to the optimal solution. Our power control policy is applicable over any subset of links scheduled. To achieve high data rates over the links in addition to maximizing system utility, we schedule links using a degree-based greedy algorithm that limits multiaccess interference by scheduling a small number of transmissions around any scheduled receiver. The link scheduling algorithm and the power control algorithm are both amenable to distributed implementation in the framework of 802.11 LANs. Finally, we compare the performance of our joint scheduling and power control algorithms against CDMA using example utility functions and illustrate the superior performance of our algorithms.","PeriodicalId":435910,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM 2003.","volume":"165 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125967420","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":"Non-homogeneous gain state optimization for transponding satellite communications","authors":"J. Marshall, K. Y. Jo","doi":"10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290156","url":null,"abstract":"Recent advances in the design of transponding communications satellites the ability to switch transponder sub-bands among multiple up-link and down-link antennas. This feature increases the flexibility of traffic routing and improves spectral re-use characteristics. A side benefit of such a new system is the capability of applying different transponder gains to carriers in different sub-channels within a given transponder. Recently, techniques have been developed for analyzing link supportability and the transponder loading with these non-homogeneous gain states. However, these new analysis techniques require that the gains be known a-priori. to complement these analysis techniques a method is needed for selecting the best gains to be used in each sub-channel. This paper presents such a method for selecting transponder gains. We define the constraining equations, which ensure that each link can be supported, and propose a optimization metric that maximizes the overall supportability. We the suggest an optimization approach that can be sued to select the gains for each sub-channel and the overall transponder operating point. The approach described includes a means of selecting the starting point for the optimization. A numerical example is provided.","PeriodicalId":435910,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM 2003.","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127854918","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}