Current and future wars may be fought against non-traditional enemies in settings where insurgent forces are hard to distinguish from peaceful civilians, in urban theaters where occlusion and clutter make targets only intermittently observable and therefore difficult to identify and track, and in situations where intelligence information is rarely clear and unambiguous. To successfully operate in such scenarios an agile army is needed, aided by ground and air sensors, communication infrastructure, and high performance computation for intensive information throughput, data analysis and mining, probabilistic reasoning, and detailed simulation. To this end, our research program in Computational Battlefield Network and Information Sciences has two main parts, addressing both the high end and the low end of the communication stack:
- TA3a: Information dissemination and aggregation under mobility
- TA3b: Robust wireless communication in complex environments.
At an upper level, the research addresses information gathering and decision support for soldiers in the field carrying wireless devices. At a lower level, it addresses the links themselves: how to build and maintain wireless communication links that have good reach, reliable coverage and high throughput in a complex environment such as a hostile urban landscape.
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