Broad area wireless networking via high altitude platforms
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Authors
Cook, Eric C.
Subjects
High Altitude Platforms
Wireless Network
WiMAX
Tactical Networks
Satellites
Network Design
Wireless Network
WiMAX
Tactical Networks
Satellites
Network Design
Advisors
Bordetsky, Alex
Date of Issue
2013-06
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Jun-13
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Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School
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This thesis explores a novel network design concept to address the data and communications needs of the Department of Defense (DoD). Current and future military operations are increasingly reliant upon data connectivity to facilitate situational awareness and distribute vital information. Current infrastructures are insufficient to meet the growing demand, especially in the myriad austere environments where military forces operate. The DoD has become reliant upon increasingly vulnerable and expensive satellite communications to fill those gaps. The wireless data technologies utilized in the commercial sector to meet the data distribution requirements of business and commercial telecommunications providers can be leveraged and adapted to meet the connectivity requirements of the DoD. By pairing these technologies with developing HAPs and their capabilities the potential for a long-range wireless broadband solution emerges. This thesis evaluates broadband wireless data technologies in combination with High Altitude Platform (HAP) technologies. It proposes a network design concept to serve as a model for future research and the ultimate integration of HAPs into battlefield information architecturesbringing the concepts of network centric warfare ever closer to reality.
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Information Sciences (IS)
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.