Communications middleware for tactical environments: Observations, experiences, and lessons learned

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 56-63

  Suri, Niranjan ^a   Benvegnù, Erika ^a   Tortonesi, Mauro ^b   Stefanelli, Cesare ^b   Kovach, Jesse ^c   Hanna, James ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Middleware; Reliability; Robot sensing systems; Transport protocols

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; COMMUNICATION LAYERS; COMMUNICATION PATTERN; CROSS-LAYER; DATA LINK LAYER; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; LESSONS LEARNED; LIMITED BANDWIDTH; NET-CENTRIC WARFARE; NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT; ROBOT SENSING SYSTEMS; TACTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; TACTICAL NETWORK; TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS; UPPER LAYER;

AD HOC NETWORKS; BANDWIDTH; MIDDLEWARE; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SENSORS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70350343390     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2009.5273809     Document Type: Article

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