Multicast networking support is becoming an increasingly important technology area for both commercial and military distributed or group-based applications. The underlying delivery mechanism for IP multicast is presently the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) or raw IP packets. At present, these mechanisms provide a "best effort" delivery service. Best effort implies that IP packets are treated with ...

The military has always been a very heavy user and innovative developer of modeling techniques and technologies. The nature of military missions requires that they rehearse missions in order to better understand their complex interactions and to estimate outcomes. This need has led them to apply modeling and simulation to a number of different activities over the last 300 years. In this chapter...

Since the end of the cold war and the downsizing of military budgets, it has been more important than ever that mission-critical systems be reliable, affordable, and capable of evolving to prevent obsolescence. Furthermore, as operational software systems play a more critical role in both military and non-military applications, the need for dependability in all software systems is increasing. I...

Military tactical communications systems will be facing great challenges in the near future. Performance of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies is improving at fast pace while at the same time life cycles of military equipment seem to remain long. The goal of this paper is to highlight a few interesting applications where development efforts of cognitive radio (CR), wireless sensor net...