| Delay Tolerant Mobility Aware Routing/Mobility Dissemination Protocol for the Airborne Network |
Oct-2009 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Mario Gerla; Abhishek Tiwari; Anurag Ganguli; David Krzysiak; Kevin C Lee; Adam Piechowicz; UTOPIA COMPRESSION CORP LOS ANGELES CA
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 | Despite airborne network (AN) topology design and careful planning of AN trajectories, unexpected disruptions (from hardware failures to changes in mission requirements and hostile attacks) may cause nodes not to connect to one another directly or indirectly either because they are out of one another's range or because nodes do not meet one another according to their preplanned trajectories. Since an end-to-end path within the AN is not always guaranteed, ... |
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| U.S. Air Force Energy Program |
Sep-2009 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
David King; AIR FORCE
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| AIR FORCE ENERGY: Successes and Challenges. AVIATION OPERATIONS: Aircraft Design * Weight Reduction * Simulator Utilization * Direct Routing * Air Refueling Optimization. INFRASTRUCTURE: Facility Energy Conservation Programs * Metering Plans * Asset Management * Sustainable Buiding Design. ACQUISITIONS AND TECHNOLOGY: Efficient/Adaptive Engine Procurement * Alternative Fuels Certification * Advanced Design Systems * Aircraft Technology * Fully-burdened Cost of Fuel Assessment. |
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| Fluorophore Nanogold Particle-Based Optical Breast Cancer Locator |
Jul-2009 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
Michael H Nantz; LOUISVILLE UNIV RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC KY OFFICE OF GRANTS MANAGEMENT
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| We report synthetic routes for modifying the fluorophore cypate, an indocyanine green (FDA approved) derivative, with custom thiol-terminated peptide and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) substrates. We selected the amino acid sequence of the peptide to serve as a recognition element for the enzyme urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA), a serine protease synthesized within cancer cells. In collaboration with Dr. Kang (partnering award W81XWH-08-1-0460), the peptide and PEG conjugates are attached via the ... |
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| Centralized Cooperative Control for Route Surveillance With Constant Communication |
Mar-2009 |
126 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph D Rosal; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| The route surveillance (RS) mission is a new application of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) to meet the reconnaissance and surveillance needs of combatant commanders. This mission intends to field a four-vehicle UAS that can provide surveillance of convoy routes. This research focuses on developing a solution strategy based on the application of optimal control and cooperative control theory. The RS controller uses the UAS team size to divide the route ... |
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| Decisive Routing and Admission Control According to Quality of Service Constraints |
Mar-2009 |
110 pages |
| Authors:
Cindy C Reese; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| This thesis will research, model, and propose options to enhance command and control in for communication networks. My goal is to research the viability of combing past research in the areas of network prediction, context-aware routing, and QoSbased routing optimization in order to create an intelligent routing protocol platform for mobile networks. It will consolidate efforts from an Intelligent Agent Based Framework to Maximize Information Utility by Captain John Pecarina, ... |
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| Cooperative Networks |
23-Feb-2009 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Cimini; Leonard J Jr; DELAWARE UNIV NEWARK DEPT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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| Future tactical networks will be complex, with severe constraints on energy and bandwidth, operating in dynamic and unpredictable environments. By exploiting the broadcast nature of the wireless medium and spatially dispersed nodes, some of the advantages of using multiple antennas can be realized through cooperation among nodes in a network. Recent work has demonstrated that cooperation can provide increased range, improved efficiency, and more reliable and longer lasting connectivity. However, ... |
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| Multi-Agent Technology for Airspace Control in the Combat Zone |
Jan-2009 |
54 pages |
| Authors:
Victor A Skormin; ADVANCED TECHNICAL CONCEPTS BERKSHIRE NY
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| Successful airspace control is one of the key factors maximizing the effectiveness of air operations. It includes long and short-term planning and control that utilizes large and dynamic databases, and constitutes a combination of resource allocation, routing, scheduling, and deconfliction tasks performed repeatedly reflecting the battlefield dynamics. These tasks place heavy burden on personnel, leading to costly inefficiencies. Modern computing technologies are capable of expanding the share of airspace control ... |
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| Robustness and Survivability Issues in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks |
30-Nov-2008 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
Guoliang Xue; ARIZONA STATE UNIV TEMPE
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| Significant contributions have been made in the course of this project. These results are published in 14 journal papers and 18 refereed conference papers. The journal papers appeared in prestigious journals such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. The Conference papers appeared in IEEE INFOCOM (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008), ACM MobiHoc (2005), IEEE Military Communication Conference ... |
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| Stochastic Control and Numerical Methods with Applications to Communications. Game Theoretic/Subsolution to Importance Sampling for Rare Event Simulation |
Nov-2008 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Paul Dupuis; Harold Kushner; BROWN UNIV PROVIDENCE RI
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| Game theoretic methods were developed to greatly improve importance sampling for rare event simulation for stochastic systems and queueing networks that arise in communications. With the same goal in mind, large deviations approach to design and analysis was developed to facilitate rare event simulations for systems with discontinuities in the dynamics and analyze escape events for queueing networks. Results for heavy tailed distributions were obtained. Numerical methods were developed for ... |
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| Autonomous Sustain and Resupply, Phase 1 Report |
Oct-2008 |
90 pages |
| Authors:
R Vaughan; Y Litus; J Wawerla; A Lein; SIMON FRASER UNIV BURNABY (BRITISH COLUMBIA) SCHOOL OF COMPUTING SCIENCE
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| This report presents our progress to date on the DRDC Autonomous Sustain and Resupply project. We are using the ASR problem as the key motivating problem for the AI and autonomy research in our lab. The document is structured as follows. First we state our general approach, which is unchanged from the proposal. Then we summarize our progress to date, referencing detailed descriptions of our work provided as chapters of ... |
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| Design Approaches for Stealthy Probing Mechanisms in Battlefield Networks |
01-Sep-2008 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
Richard Gopaul; Shriram Ganesh; Maitreya Natu; Adarshpal Sethi; Rommie Hardy; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ADELPHI MD COMPUTATIONAL AND INFORMATION SCIENCES DIRECTORATE
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| Various approaches have been proposed in the past for monitoring a network to diagnose failures and performance bottlenecks. One such approach for efficient and effective monitoring is probing. Probes such as ICMP pings are an effective tool for detecting network nodes that have been compromised by an attacker who tries to delay or drop traffic passing through the captured node. However, an intelligent attacker may evade detection by giving preferential ... |
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| Optimization of Combat Logistics Force Required to Support Major Combat Operations |
01-Sep-2008 |
69 pages |
| Authors:
Troy C Morse; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Military requirements development involves operational commanders conducting analyses of a variety of combat scenarios to assess force structure and material requirements to meet their military objectives. The naval component of each command determines the number of Combat Logistics Force (CLF) ships necessary to keep combatant vessels on station. Without sufficient CLF ships, naval forces are unable to sustain continued presence in theater, hampering their ability to support combat operations. Current ... |
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| The Common MANET Framework |
01-Sep-2008 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Gregory Frazier; BAE SYSTEMS NATIONAL SECURITY SOLUTION INC BURLINGTON MA
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| This effort researched, developed and demonstrated a Common Mobile Ad-hoc Networking (MANET) framework (CMF) to provide a uniform abstraction for wireless discovery, communication, and routing of network traffic over heterogeneous transmission technologies. The application program interface (API) supports the development of MANET-appropriate Internet Protocol (IP)- based applications and also provides observability and controlability interfaces to the CMF. The research uses two complementary algorithms: one uses application behavior to identify initial ... |
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| Simulation and Optimization Methodologies and Military Transportation Network Routing and Scheduling |
20-Aug-2008 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Ervin Y Rodin; Allen McCoy; WASHINGTON UNIV ST LOUIS MO CENTER FOR OPTIMIZATION AND SEMANTIC CONTROL
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| This Final Report presents the description of the developments in our latest project, on The Tanker Operations Reporting and Optimization System. The presentation consists of two parts: first, a narrative and second, as an attachment, the Power Point version of this narrative. |
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| Secure and Robust Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks |
20-Jul-2008 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Donggang Liu; TEXAS UNIV AT ARLINGTON OFFICE OF PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS
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| In many applications, sensor nodes are organized into clusters to perform efficient in-network processing (e.g., data aggregation), build scalable routing protocols, facilitate data queries, and implement efficient and scalable broadcast protocol. It is highly necessary to guarantee the trustworthiness and resilience of sensor network operations, especially when the failure of doing so could lead to catastrophic consequences. This project has made significant contributions to construct clusters securely and offered solutions ... |
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| Allocation of UAV Search Efforts Using Dynamic Programming and Bayesian Updating |
01-Jun-2008 |
87 pages |
| Authors:
Kevin McCadden; Christopher Nigus; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| As unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology and availability improves, it becomes increasingly more important to operate UAVs efficiently. Utilizing one UAV at a time is a relatively simple task, but when multiple UAVs need to be coordinated, optimal search plans can be difficult to create in a timely manner. In this thesis, we create a decision aid that generates efficient routes for multiple UAVs using dynamic programming and a limited-look-ahead ... |
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| A Survey of Satellite Communications System Vulnerabilities |
01-Jun-2008 |
140 pages |
| Authors:
JOINT ELECTRONIC WARFARE CENTER KELLY AFB TX
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| The U.S. military's increasing reliance on commercial and military communications satellites to enable widely-dispersed, mobile forces to communicate makes these space assets increasingly vulnerable to attack by adversaries. Attacks on these satellites could cause military communications to become unavailable at critical moments during a conflict. This research dissected a typical satellite communications system in order to provide an understanding of the possible attacker entry points into the system, to determine ... |
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| A Heuristic Algorithm for Optimized Routing of Unmanned Aerial Systems for the Interdiction of Improvised Explosive Devices |
01-Jun-2008 |
61 pages |
| Authors:
Michael S Scioletti; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are effective weapons for insurgents targeting conventional military and security forces. Real-time information gathering about likely use of such weapons is one approach to reduce the effectiveness of IEDs. Unmanned aerial system (UASs) may provide the information gathering capability commanders need to interdict IEDs. Currently, UASs are not systematically utilized in that capacity. This research develops a routing tool that uses column-generation techniques and a greedy ... |
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| Business Case Analysis: Reconfiguration of the Frederick Memorial Healthcare System Courier Service |
13-May-2008 |
65 pages |
| Authors:
Nathan C Rauch; FREDERICK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MD
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| This business case projects the likely benefits and costs to Frederick Memorial Hospital that would result from a decision to reconfigure its courier service by way of vehicle diversification and route realignment. Presently, Frederick Memorial Hospital couriers employ inefficient utility vans on redundant routes that are not meeting the hospital's entire demand for courier services. By way of investing in fuel-efficient vehicles, reducing manpower levels, and realigning courier routes, this ... |
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| UAV Swarm Mission Planning Development Using Evolutionary Algorithms and Parallel Simulation - Part II |
May-2008 |
19 pages |
| Authors:
Gary B Lamont; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH DEPT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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| The purpose of this paper is to discuss the design and implementation of comprehensive mission planning systems for swarms of autonomous aerial vehicles (UAV). Such a system could integrate several problem domains including path planning, vehicle routing, and swarm behavior as based upon a hierarchical architecture. The example developed system consists of a parallel multi-objective evolutionary algorithm-based terrain-following parallel path planner, a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) for the UAV swarm ... |
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| Nested Material Manufacturing Technology Improvement |
18 MAR 2008 |
24 pages |
| Authors:
NATIONAL STEEL AND SHIPBUILDING CO SAN DIEGO CA
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| The objective of this project was to develop an automated planning and control system in the GD NASSCO Pipe Shop that enabled the efficient handling of pipe spool fabrication in a flexible manufacturing environment. The solution to improved efficiency in Pipe Shop operations was to implement an automated pipe spool planning process that had the ability to apply defined rules for pipe part routing and nesting, but could accept late ... |
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| Scripted Mobile Network Routing in a Contested Environment |
01-Mar-2008 |
58 pages |
| Authors:
Anthony R Otto; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH DEPT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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| Mobile wireless network protocols currently run on optimistic routing algorithms, adjusting node connectivity only when the chosen connectivity metrics, such as signal strength, pass beyond minimum thresholds. Optimistic routing has several weaknesses. Optimistic routing suffers from increased network overhead during increased frequency of node movement increased node density per area, and optimistic routing suffers from non-optimistic access change for individual nodes. The overall communication throughput of a network may be ... |
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| An Investigation into the Advantages, Mechanisms, and Developmental Challenges of Scripted Mobile Routing |
01-Mar-2008 |
68 pages |
| Authors:
Boyeon Jang; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) routing protocols provide routing solutions in mobile wireless networks, without assuming any prior knowledge of topology nor any prediction of future topology. However, the resulting routes suffer from delay and consume precious bandwidth. Perfectly scripted routing could theoretically be optimal, (i.e., introduce no delay and cost no additional bandwidth), but would naturally be very fragile. This thesis explores a merging of these approaches, following a ... |
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| Multi-Objective UAV Mission Planning Using Evolutionary Computation |
01-Mar-2008 |
136 pages |
| Authors:
Adam J Pohl; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| This investigation purports to develop a new model for multiple autonomous aircraft mission routing. Previous research both related and unrelated to this endeavor have used classic combinatoric problems as models for \ac{UAV} routing and mission planning. This document presents the concept of the Swarm Routing Problem (SRP) as a new combinatorics problem for use in modeling UAV swarm routing, developed as a variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time ... |
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| Estimation of Upstream Discharge in Data-Deprived Riverine Environments |
01-Jan-2008 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
John E Brown; Cheryl A Blain; NAVAL RESEARCH LAB STENNIS SPACE CENTER MS OCEAN DYNAMICS AND PREDICTION BRANCH
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| Rivers pose one of the most challenging environments to quantify as they contain elements of both land and water. Their dynamical scales are small in size relative to traditional ocean processes, and are ever-changing in their position and character. To compound the problem, many riverine environments of interest to the U.S. Navy are inaccessible or denied and typically have very little, if any, known information. To address the operational needs ... |
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| Cooperative Networked Control of Dynamical Peer-to-Peer Vehicle Systems |
28 DEC 2007 |
61 pages |
| Authors:
Geir E. Dullerud; Francesco Bullo; Eric Feron; Emilio Frazzoli; P. R. Kumar; Sanjay Lall; Daniel Liberzon; Nancy A. Lynch; John C. Mitchell; Sanjoy K. Mitter; ILLINOIS UNIV CHAMPAIGN
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| The goal of this MURI center was the development of a rigorous theoretical foundation, and scalable analytical tools and paradigms for construction of networked control for large numbers of autonomous and semi-autonomous air vehicles. The research is specifically aimed at the critical reliability and performance issues facing autonomous vehicle systems which operate in highly uncertain environments, and enables the vehicles to form teams, manage information, and coordinate operations including deployment, ... |
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| Algorithms for Data Sharing, Coordination, and Communication in Dynamic Network Settings |
03 DEC 2007 |
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| Authors:
Nancy Lynch; MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE
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 | This project developed many distributed algorithms and corresponding lower bounds for solving important problems in dynamic networks, focusing on mobile networks with wireless communication. Problems studied include data management, time synchronization, communication problems (broadcast, geocast, and point-to-point routing), distributed consensus, tracking, and motion coordination. Highlights include (1) The discovery of a fundamental limitation in capabilities for time synchronization in large networks. (2) The identification and development of the notion of ... |
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| Data Replication Over Disadvantaged Links: A Canadian Naval Perspective |
01-Dec-2007 |
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| Authors:
John Bycroft; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER (QUEBEC)
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| Network Payload Integration for the Scan-Eagle UAV |
DEC 2007 |
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| Authors:
Han Leong Lim; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| With the increasing maturity of MESH network technology, it is inevitable that we exploit the synergistic capabilities in networking of autonomous vehicles. The interconnectivity enables the sharing or dissemination of information between various nodes and has the capability to enhance communication range between a Ground Control Station (GCS) and autonomous aircraft which can then be expanded to several GCSs, or in a networked combination of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Unmanned ... |
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| Toxicity of the Cyclic Nitramine Energetic Material CL-20 to Aquatic Receptors |
OCT 2007 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Mark V. Haley; John S. Anthony; Emily A. Davis; Carl W. Kurnas; Roman G. Kuperman; Ronald T. Checkai; EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
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| We investigated the effects of the cyclic nitramine energetic material CL-20 (2,4,6,8,10,1 2-hexanitro-2,4,6,8, 10,12- hexaazaisowurtzitane) on Ceriodaphnia dubia (water flea), Pimephales promelas (fathead minnow), and Selenastrum capricornutum (green single celled algae). We designed experiments to include two types of exposure: (1) direct amendments of CL-20 to test media, and (2) aquatic elutriates from Sassafras Sandy Loam (SSL) soil amended with various concentrations of CL-20. Selected exposure routes that we simulated ... |
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| Comparison of Two Hierarchical Routing Protocols for Heterogeneous MANET |
OCT 2007 |
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| Authors:
Maoyu Yang; Ying Ge; Louise Lamont; COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH CENTRE OTTAWA (ONTARIO)
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| In this report, a study on hierarchical routing protocols for heterogeneous mobile Ad Hoc wireless networks is presented. The main thrust of the investigation is to identify a potential hierarchical routing scheme that is best suited for a heterogeneous tactical Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET). Such networks consist of mobile nodes that are characterized by different communications capabilities, such as multiple radio interfaces. The report highlights the benefits and issues ... |
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| Training Wayfinding: Natural Movement in Mixed Reality |
OCT 2007 |
70 pages |
| Authors:
Ruthann Savage; ARMY RESEARCH INST FOR THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ORLANDO FL
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| This report describes an experiment that investigated a prototype mixed reality (MR) system, utilizing the Battlefield Augmented Reality System (BARS), for training wayfinding. BARS is a mobile augmented reality system that uses a head mounted display (HMD) and a wireless system that tracks the users' head position and orientation. In this application a graphic representation of an office space was used as a virtual environment (VE), through which users walked ... |
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| Joint Mobile Network Operations: Routing Design and Quality of Service Configuration |
SEP 2007 |
153 pages |
| Authors:
David K. Norton; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Current inter-Service military networking is inefficient and lacks the desired level of Joint interoperability. Generally, the different Service branches build stove-piped networks that do not allow sharing of resources with the other branches. This approach is taken because the individual networks do not see the benefits of interconnectivity as worth the effort required to build secure, stable, and operationally effective network solutions. The Joint Mobile Network Operations (JMNO) project seeks ... |
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| Distribution of Information in Ad Hoc Networks |
SEP 2007 |
103 pages |
| Authors:
Wijden B. Hassine; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Ad-hoc networks are distributed, self-organized networks which do not need a fixed infrastructure. Entities in networks of this sort must collaborate to make network services such as routing - functional. In these environments, many algorithms from wired networks cannot be naively adapted without congesting the network. The author's work is focused on the study of the information distribution protocol. Indeed, without application, ad-hoc network technologies are useless. Managing services consists ... |
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| Communicating on the Move: Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks |
01-Jul-2007 |
3 pages |
| Authors:
Dean Nathans; Robert F Dillingham; OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR NETWORKS AND INFORMATION INTEGRATION WASHINGTON DC
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| Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) are wireless networks that continually re-organize themselves in response to their environment without the benefit of a pre-existing infrastructure. A MANET consists of a set of mobile participants who must communicate, collaborate, and interact to complete an assigned mission. The challenges of MANETs are to provide wireless, high-capacity, secure, and networked connectivity. Participants must communicate using bandwidth limited wireless links with potential intermittent connectivity, as compared ... |
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| DARPA Quantum Network Testbed |
JUL 2007 |
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| Authors:
Chip Elliott; Henry Yeh; BBN TECHNOLOGIES CAMBRIDGE MA
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| BBN has designed and built the world's first Quantum Network testbed, delivering end-to-end network security via high-speed Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), and testing that Network against sophisticated eavesdropping attacks. BBN has fielded this ultrahigh-security network into commercial fiber across the metro Boston area. BBN's QKD network comprises 10 nodes. It is both extremely secure and 100% compatible with today's Internet technology. Four of the 10 nodes are running 24x7 over ... |
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| A New Sufficient Condition for Robust Interdomain Routing |
JUN 2007 |
89 pages |
| Authors:
John H. Rogers; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is currently the only interdomain routing protocol employed on the internet. It allows tens of thousands of Autonomous Systems (ASes) to exchange routing information while implementing economic and organizational policies. However, conflicting policies between ASes can cause routing instability and/or unpredictable routing solutions. A system of routers is robust if routing tables always converge predictably, despite router and link failures. We pursue an approach to guarantee ... |
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| Improving Efficiency and Simplicity of Tor Circuit Establishtment and Hidden Services |
JUN 2007 |
21 pages |
| Authors:
Lasse Oeverlier; Paul Syverson; NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT KJELLER
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| In this paper we demonstrate how to reduce the overhead and delay of circuit establishment in the Tor anonymizing network by using predistributed Diffie-Hellman values. We eliminate the use of RSA encryption and decryption from circuit setup, and we reduce the number of DH exponentiations vs. the current Tor circuit setup protocol while maintaining immediate forward secrecy. We also describe savings that can be obtained by precomputing during idle cycles ... |
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| The Caspian Sea Pipeline: A Clear Strategic U.S. Interest |
09 MAY 2007 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Larry T. Marek; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| From the spring of 1998 through the winter of 2002, during the debate and initial planning for the first major pipeline in the region, a host of policy articles were being written describing the coming storm of a potential geopolitical "rivalry" between and among the Caspian superpowers. The policy arguments revolved around two distinct but related issues: first, who would be the winners and the losers in the struggle for ... |
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| Development of a Fully Interconnected Optical Network Architecture (FIONA) |
07 MAY 2007 |
56 pages |
| Authors:
Mark E. Daniel; NAVAL ACADEMY ANNAPOLIS MD
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| Networks have been rapidly evolving over the last several decades and continue to do so today. This evolution has been driven by a need for increased performance, as characterized by increased data rates and larger bandwidth. This project focused on the development of a reconfigurable network architecture that connects existing Local Area Networks (LANs) to create an extended LAN. The network uses optical fiber and supports data transparency. This Fully ... |
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| Titanium Brazing for Structures and Survivability |
MAY 2007 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
Kevin J. Doherty; Jason R. Tice; Steven T. Szewczyk; Gary A. Glide; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD WEAPONS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH DIRECTORATE
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| Titanium is a candidate as a structural material for all new tactical and armored ground vehicles, because of its high strength-to-weight ratio, excellent corrosion resistance, and inherent ballistic resistance. However, titanium as a structural material is much less mature than both steel and aluminum alloys, especially in the area of joining. While welding is the typical joining method for titanium, vacuum brazing is an option in areas that are difficult ... |
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| Routing Military Aircraft with a Constrained Shortest-Path Algorithm |
17-Apr-2007 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
W M Carlyle; Johannes O Royset; R K Wood; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
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| We formulate and solve aircraft-routing problems that arise when planning missions for military aircraft that are subject to ground-based threats such as surface-to-air missiles. We use a constrained-shortest path (CSP) model that discretizes the relevant airspace into a grid of vertices representing potential waypoints, and connects vertices with directed edges to represent potential flight segments. The model is flexible: It can route any type of manned or unmanned aircraft; it ... |
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| Effective Mobile Routing Through Dynamic Addressing |
MAR 2007 |
71 pages |
| Authors:
Heungsoon Park; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| Military communications has always been an important factor in military victory and will surely play an important part in future combat. In modern warfare, military units are usually deployed without existing network infrastructure. The IP routing protocol, designed for hierarchical networks cannot easily be applied in military networks due to the dynamic topology expected in military environments. Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) represent an appropriate network for small military networks. But, ... |
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| Static Reachability Analysis and Validation Regarding Security Policies Implemented via Packet Filters |
MAR 2007 |
69 pages |
| Authors:
Stephen M. Kantz; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The ability to statically determine what kinds of packets can be exchanged between two hosts on a network is desirable to those who design and operate networks but this is a difficult and complex problem. Factors affecting reachability analysis are packet filters routing policies and packet transformations. The number of variables within and among networks is intractable for manual computation. A proposed solution to this mess is a tractable framework ... |
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| Understanding Route Redistribution |
01-Jan-2007 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Hui Zhang; Franck Le; Geoffrey G Xie; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA
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| Route redistribution (RR) has become an integral part of IP network design as the result of a growing need for disseminating certain routes across routing protocol boundaries. While RR is widely used and resembles BGP in several nontrivial aspects, surprisingly, the safety of RR has not been systematically studied by the networking community. This paper presents the first analytical model for understanding the effect of RR on network wide routing ... |
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| Constrained Estimation for GPS/Digital Map Integration (Postprint) |
01-Jan-2007 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
Erik Blasch; Thao Nguyen; Mikel Miller; Chun Yang; SIGTEM TECHNOLOGIES INC SAN MATEO CA
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| Linear and nonlinear constrained estimation is investigated in this paper as an optimal method to integrate GPS fixes with digital maps so as to improve accuracy and reliability. In addition to emergency location and roadside assistance, the integration of GPS with digital maps becomes an increasingly popular application in automotives particularly for real-time routing, driving guidance, and street prompting. A position fix is obtained by a GPS receiver, which may ... |
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| UAV Scheduling via the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (Preprint) |
JAN 2007 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
Amanda L. Weinstein; Corey Schumacher; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH AIR VEHICLES DIRECTORATE
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| In an urban environment, multiple small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may be utilized to locate, surveil, or attack various targets. Whatever the task, the air vehicles must cooperate by efficiently communicating with each other and optimally assigning each UAV to the appropriate task at the appropriate target and at the appropriate time. In this paper, a vehicle assignment algorithm is developed using a mixed integer linear program (MILP) to find ... |
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| Internet Architecture: Lessons Learned and Looking Forward |
01-Dec-2006 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
Geoffrey G Xie; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| This chapter explores the architectural design of the Internet. The main objectives are: (i) highlight the design principles underlying the Internet architecture and explain their roles in the success of the network, and (ii) identify some of the limitations of the current Internet architecture and present a possible approach to addressing them. |
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| Communication Aspects in Urban Terrain |
DEC 2006 |
99 pages |
| Authors:
Volker Pfeiffer; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The nature of warfare has changed dramatically during the last decade. Western armies are increasingly required to conduct complex operations in urban terrain against asymmetric threats. These opponents use cities and their inhabitants for cover and concealment. In such situations, modern equipped armies often cannot fully utilize many of their most powerful weapons. To overcome this situation, modern communication systems are being acquired and deployed to provide real-time reconnaissance; thereby, ... |
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| Optimal Military Transportation in a Korean Theater |
DEC 2006 |
65 pages |
| Authors:
Young-Sik Jeong; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Due to their high dependency on highway transportation, Republic of Korea's (ROK's) military and industry suffer from congestion, shortfall of means (convoys in the military case), high cost and increase in environmental damage. Our research develops an optimization model to guide ROK's military planning using multi-modal transportation. We apply our Military Logistics Transportation Model (MLTM) to a realistic scenario. MLTM provides guidance on the optimal frequency of transportation services and ... |
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