From the Inside Flap
This book presents tactical wireless communications and networks in a breakdown model. The ultimate goal is to help different types of readers, such as graduate students specializing in communications, or simply new comers to the field. This book introduces tactical wireless communications and networks in terms of protocol stack layers (just like commercial wireless communications and networks), and points to the differences and similarities between tactical and commercial models. Another group that may benefit from this text is engineers working in the field. This book should help them get a better understanding of how to face the challenges in the field through the use of concepts and design approaches introduced here, such as the open architecture model, and cross layer signaling. Hopefully this text can help engineers and scientists gear tactical network designs to a more manageable model, by breaking the general problem of a tactical wireless network node, into smaller entities of what needs to be done at each stack layer. I have long been an advocate for open architecture in tactical wireless communications networking. For the most part, I am presenting tactical wireless networks with an open architecture framework. Tactical wireless networks are not the same as commercial wireless networks by any means. However, some engineering concepts that have proven successful in the commercial model, especially the open architecture concept, can be adapted by tactical wireless networks.
From the Back Cover
Uniquely presents tactical wireless communications and networks from an open architecture model perspective
Providing a complete description of modern tactical military communications and networks technologies, this book systematically compares tactical military communications techniques with their commercial equivalents, pointing out similarities and differences. The author methodologically leads readers through this complex topic; first providing theoretical background on the protocol stack layers as they relate to tactical wireless communications and networking, second cover legacy, current and future tactical radio, and then going into detail on the open architecture challenges.
The book covers legacy non-IP tactical radios, IP-based tactical Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (MANET) radios, the place of cognitive radios in future tactical communications, as well as the use of core networks in the tactical theatre. Also presented are the Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) and other waveforms in the larger context of the Global Information Grid (GIG). This in-depth coverage enables readers to reflect on the security and Network Operations (NetOps) challenges, the need for cross layer signalling, the hypothesis of merging some protocol stack layers, and the techniques that are unique to tactical communications and networking, allowing them to move on to further practical and theoretical considerations.
Key Features:
- Covers the current state of tactical networking as well as the future long term evolution of tactical wireless communications and networking in the next 50 years
- Furnished throughout with illustrations and case studies to clarify the notional and architectural approaches
- Written at an advanced level with scope as a reference tool for engineers and scientists as well as a graduate text for advanced courses
About the Author
Dr. George F. Elmasry received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt and a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He has extensive industrial experience in commercial and defense telecommunications and is currently leading XPRT Solutions which specializes in communications systems for the Department of Defense.
Dr. Elmasry has experience with technical task leads, and team building for middle and upper management. He has over 50 publications and patents in network management, quality of service and resource management, network and transport layer coding, joint source and channel coding, modeling and simulation, cross layer signaling, multidimensional interleaving and spread spectrum communications.
In addition, Dr. Elmasry has been a member of the technical committee for the annual Military Communication Conference (Milcom) since 2003. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) International, a member of Sigma Xi, and a member of Alpha Epsilon Lambda – NJIT graduate-student honor society. Dr. Elmasry holds countless awards, including the prestigious Hashimoto Award for achievement and academic excellence in electrical and computer engineering.
Wow! eBook
