An adaptive VHF/UHF system for the next generation tactical MANETs

Author

Labbé, Isabelle ; Gagnon, Benoit ; Roy, Jean-François

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2009

fDate

18-21 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Tactical mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have a continued growth in bandwidth demand mainly driven by the introduction of new user services and applications. Everything over IP is one of the main requirements of the next generation tactical MANETs. As part of an initial investigation to provide enhanced tactical IP networking capabilities, an adaptive VHF/UHF system that attempts to satisfy the mobility, capacity and adaptability requirements of the new tactical environment was developed. The solution includes a multi-rate Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) VHF/UHF line-of-sight (LOS) radio modem and a fully distributed multi-channel media access protocol that supports integrated voice and data. A description of the two technologies is provided along with the main features and novel functionalities of the system.

Keywords

IP networks; OFDM modulation; access protocols; ad hoc networks; military communication; mobile radio; IP networking; MANET; adaptive VHF/UHF system; distributed multichannel media access protocol; multirate orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; next generation tactical MANETs; tactical mobile ad hoc networks; Access protocols; Adaptive systems; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Modems; OFDM; Robustness;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2009. MILCOM 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5238-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5239-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2009.5380073

Filename

5380073