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Towards Tactical Military Software Defined Radio

Authors:
Tapio Saarelainen

Keywords: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Self-Organizing Networks, Software Defined Radio/Graphic User Interface

Abstract:
This paper presents an idea-phase introduction of a tactical level communication system (battalion and below), which enables utilizing different waveforms and frequencies when communicating by using Software Defined Radio. The discussed idea-stage solution relies on using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as hub-stations in order to ensure secure communication and reliable data transmission as regards wide bandwidth transmission to base-stations. The need for timely and accurate analyzing of the increasing amount of Situational Awareness and Common Operational Picture –related data collected keeps looming large in the battlespace. Similarly, the type and amount of different waveforms and frequencies also keep increasing. Software Defined Radio with its Graphic User Interface application, as discussed in the Results section, may offer one way of freeing the hands of a warrior to handle his or her firearm instead of a myriad of communication devices while in combat. This paper briefly looks at communication enabled by using swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Self Organizing Networks in a military context and provisionally examines what testing and creating such a system would require and does so only at an early idea phase of a concept development process.

Pages: 96 to 106

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: November 16, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-374-2

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 16, 2014 to November 20, 2014