Avionics architectures for real-time multi-platform spectrum allocation

This article describes a notional system-of-systems concept that is compatible with futuristic multi-function multi-platform sensor applications. The concept is based on localized "adaptive" waveform and spectrum allocation. The systems engineering, modeling, and analysis of this type of system is based on a signal requirements analysis within a local region of interest where a collection of notional platforms, each with a given set of sensor requirements is visualized. During initial deployment, the waveform parameters for each platform are left in an indeterminate state. Then, the parametric sensor requirements, for each sensor, are mapped to real-time waveform design parameters.