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Abstract. Ready information flow is critical to the success of military
operationsùcommanders need up-to-date information to make sound plans, which must
be communicated without delay to relevant forces. Adequate communications bandwidth
for these functions is normally available within and between fixed
headquarters, but future deployable headquarters will have to operate using
a variety of communications channels ranging from HF radio to
satellite links. Such channels are characterized by widely varying latencies,
error rates and bandwidths, with lack of available bandwidth the
most prevalent constraint. Any problems here are compounded by a
need to exchange information across levels of command and to
operate in a hostile environment. Current C3I systems, their constituent
COTS products and supporting communications infrastructures have a very limited
ability to adapt co-operatively to changing network conditions. We propose
an approach that integrates application, system and network policy expressions
with the aim of facilitating the best outcome in terms
of military objectives given orders of magnitude variation in network
Quality of Service.
Related topics:
tactical communications systems, communications systems, command systems
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