When communications are needed the most desperately and most urgently, the difficulty of effecting the desired communications increases exponentially. Recent natural disasters in different parts of the world have provided eloquent testament to this. The history of disaster or emergency communications can provide us with a foundation for understanding the problems encountered today, and can offe...

This paper presents securing satellite communications using link level security (such as ATM security) or network level security (such as IPSEC), where both can be applied to military satellite communications. The paper examines the topic of securing very large multicast groups over satellites, where the group size and group dynamics have great impact on networks performance and network security.

Historically, most of the metrics that have been used to evaluate the effectiveness of military communications systems have focused on measuring the intelligibility of a single talker in the presence of a continuous noise masker. However, many critical military operations involve complex communications tasks that require listeners to monitor, process, and respond to two or more simultaneous spe...

113 INTRODUCTION The growing demand from the commercial and military sectors for on-the-move communications at high data rates has generated interest in a new type of satellite terminal. These terminals can provide broadband communications from maritime vessels, trains, airplanes, land vehicles, and other transportation systems. Although the interest in the commercial sector is primarily in bro...

In this paper, we consider a frequency assignment problem occurring in a military context. The main originality of the problem pertains to its dynamic dimension: new communications requiring frequency assignments need to be established throughout a deployment. The problem decomposes in three phases: assignment of an initial kernel of communications, dynamic assignment of new communication links...

This report seeks to inform the reader as to the "state of the art" of tactical HF data communications. HF Communications provide a large utility in the military arena where ad hoc communications are required with minimal assets and planning. A review of the relevant HF standards is performed, with a discussion on the technical aspects and impacts. A product review is also performed, which info...