Effective response to natural or man-made disasters (i.e., terrorism) is predicated on the ability to communicate among the many organizations involved. Disaster response exercises enable disaster planners and responders to test procedures and technologies and incorporate the lessons learned from past disasters or exercises. On May 31 and June 1, 2002, one such exercise event took place at the ...

Due to the increasing complexity and heterogeneity of contemporary Command, Control, Communications, Computers, & Intelligence systems at all levels within military organizations, the adoption of the Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) principles and concepts is becoming essential. SOA provides flexibility and interoperability of services enabling the realization of efficient and modular infor...

n Modern military satellite communications terminals have typically been built as multiprocessor systems. Because of increasing pressure for reuse and modularity, current programs have been encouraged to consider the use of component middleware. While Common Object Request Broker Architecture is the most mature middleware standard available, its invocation semantics present considerable challen...

* This paper combines and extends research work that appeared in preliminary form in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Military Communications, Mc Lean, Virginia, USA, October 1996, Eds. IEEE, pp. 755-759 and in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communications, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Sept.-Oct. 1996, Eds. IEEE, pp. 487-491. Part...

Semiconductor-based ultraviolet (UV) photodiodes have been continuously developed that can be widely used in various commercial, civilian areas, and military applications, such as optical communications, missile launching detection, flame detection, UV radiation calibra‐ tion and monitoring, chemical and biological analysis, optical communications, and astro‐ nomical studies, etc. [1-2]. All th...

Multihop wireless systems outperform single-hop ones in terms of coverage and capacity. The IEEE 802.16 standard, also known as Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), is one of the latest broadband wireless access technologies over long distances. Mobile multihop relay (MMR) WiMAX networks introduce relay stations (RS) to improve range and performance at low cost. Providing mu...

We present an outline of reconfigurable processor technologies and design methods with emphasis on an objectoriented approach, and both full and partial dynamic reconfiguration. A specific broadly applicable architecture for implementing a software reconfigurable network processor for wireless communication applications is presented; a prototype of which is currently operating in the laboratory...

The tactical land command, control, communications, computer and intelligence structure is essentially an array of complex and dynamic systems of systems. In this paper we address a capability deficiency in the identification and analysis of critical information requirements, flows and processes to support decision-making within this tactical structure. We accomplish this by incorporating model...

Emerging applications require secure group communications around hierarchical architecture protocols, like military or public emergency applications. However, conceiving such secure hierarchical protocols is not straightforward. Thus, their verification become a primordial issue in order to avoid the possible security attacks and vulnerabilities. Several attempts have been done to deal with for...

This paper discusses concepts developed under the SEA led UK MoD Battlespace Access Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (BAUUV) programme to provide higher levels of military AUV autonomy. BAUUV aims to identify and assess the technology readiness relating to a range of future (2010-2015) UK military missions and to perform focussed technology development activities to address key technology gaps. One ...