Crucial differences between commercial and military communications technology needs: Why the military still needs its own research

Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 342-347

  Vassiliou, Marius S ^a   Agre, Jonathan R ^a   Shah, Syed ^b   Macdonald, Thomas ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES   (United States)

^b Office Asst Sec Defense Research and Engineering   (United States)

^c MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial; Communications; COTS; Military

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL; COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY; COTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC ENVIRONMENTS; MILITARY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

COMMUNICATION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; ELECTRONIC WARFARE; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; RESEARCH; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84897716068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MILCOM.2013.66     Document Type: Conference Paper

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