Applying UMTS and GPRS technology in existing military communication networks: a case study

Author

Vergados, D. ; Kormentzas, G. ; Gizelis, C. ; Lazarakis, F. ; Theologou, M. ; Stassinopoulos, G.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Zografou, Greece

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

605

Abstract

The future of military wireless networks is changing dramatically along with the commercial wireless communication systems. During the last few years, the mobile wireless industry is spending considerable effort to enhance the technical characteristics of existing second generation systems in the goal of upgrading their service provision capabilities and of promoting effective integration with data transport networks (such as GPRS and UMTS). After giving an overview of GPRS and UMTS technologies, the paper proceed to present a set of generic GPRS and UMTS-based architectures, which can be used as migration steps toward third-generation tactical military networks.

Keywords

cellular radio; data communication; military communication; packet radio networks; GPRS; UMTS; data transport networks; military wireless communication networks; mobile wireless; second generation systems; service provision; third-generation tactical military networks; 3G mobile communication; Bandwidth; Computer aided software engineering; GSM; Ground penetrating radar; Intelligent networks; Military communication; Military computing; Packet radio networks; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2001. MILCOM 2001. Communications for Network-Centric Operations: Creating the Information Force. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7225-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2001.985872

Filename

985872