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Emerging Commercial Mobile Wireless Technology and Standards

Suitable for the Army?

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By: Phillip M. Feldman

The U.S. Army, as well as the other services, is moving in the direction of greater use of commercial technology and standards. The principal motivation for this change is the desire to reduce costs. However, increased interoperability is another potential benefit. This report evaluates commercial wireless communications technology, including components and subsystems, physical layer standards (waveforms and signal processing), protocol standards, and products and services. The author attempts to assess the suitability of these commercial technologies for Army tactical applications and to suggest the appropriate mix of commercial, military-unique, and military variants of commercial systems for use on the digital battlefield. The author recommends specific Army research and development areas where progress is needed in order to address voids between military requirements and currently available and emerging technology.

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Contents

Chapter 1:
Introduction

Chapter 2:
Performance Measures and Design Tradeoffs

Chapter 3:
Alternative Architectures for Future Military Mobile Networks

Chapter 4:
Commercial Wireless Technology: Products, Standards, and Services

Chapter 5:
The Channel Modeling Problem

Chapter 6:
Recommendations for 6.1/6.2 Funding

Chapter 7:
Conclusions

Appendix A:
Brief Overview of Tactical Radio Communications

Appendix B:
A Brief Review of Multiaccess Communications

Appendix C:
Types of Channel Models

Appendix D:
Derivation of the Spectral Efficiency Form of Shannon's Capacity Formula

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