Modelling of Pico Satellite Network Applications to Maritime Interdiction Operations
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Authors
Bordetsky, Alex
Mantzouris, Georgios
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2011-06
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June 2011
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
The successful command and control of Maritime Interdiction Operations (MIO) depends heavily upon an
organization?s communications and network platforms. These platforms must provide effective, efficient,
affordable communications between operational and tactical commanders in an operating area, among
globally distributed expert technical advisors, and especially, between these two groups. Since 2009, the
researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(LLNL) together with their overseas partners have been exploring the benefits of using very small
Picosatellite based, private orbital tactical networking nodes to support expert reachback and coordination
in Maritime Interdiction Operations scenarios. The NPS team is currently assembling the first set of three
Picosatellites to be launched in late 2011 in conjunction with the first series of field trials of MIO reachback
employing orbital tactical nodes. In order to plan and design integration experiments using Picosatellite
nodes, we developed software models for future miniature orbital tactical nodes. These are being
assembled using the simulation modeling environment in Satellite Tool Kit (STK). This paper describes the
results of simulations of Picosatellite networking nodes and analysis of their implementation in MIO test
scenarios.
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Article
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16th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS), Québec City, Canada, June 21-23, 2011
Paper ID 163
Paper ID 163
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Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
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16th International Command & Control Research & Technology Symposium, Quebec, Canada, 21-23 June 2011
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