Title :
Empowering the battlefield with a mobile middleware platform
Author :
Jana, Rittwik ; Jora, Serban ; Rice, Christopher W. ; Chen, Yih-Farn ; Hart, Lewis ; Emery, Patrick
Author_Institution :
AT&T Labs. Res., Florham Park, NJ, USA
Abstract :
In this paper we analyze the utility of mobile middleware platform technology applied in a realistic military exercise scenario. The system was demonstrated to the Office of Naval Research in partial fulfillment of the US Marines Corps next generation ground logistics command and control (GLC2) platform. In particular, we will highlight four mission critical activities, namely a) alerting and notification of information to a wide variety of handheld devices, b) a publish and subscribe interface for mobile devices to an ontology driven knowledge dissemination (ODKD) system via the middleware platform, c) link/Status detection and seamless switchover from a secure wired to a secure wireless (802.11b) infrastructure and d) autonomic sensor data parsing and injection for use in a course of action tool simulator.
Keywords :
command and control systems; logistics data processing; middleware; military communication; mobile radio; program compilers; telecommunication security; wireless LAN; Office Naval Research; US Marines Corps; action tool simulator; autonomic sensor data parsing; handheld devices; link-status detection; military exercise; mobile middleware platform; next generation ground logistics command and control; ontology driven knowledge dissemination system; publish-subscribe interface; seamless switchover; secure wireless 802.11b infrastructure; Command and control systems; Communication system security; Handheld computers; Logistics; Marine technology; Middleware; Mission critical systems; Ontologies; Sensor systems; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM '03. 2003 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8140-8
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290420
