Tactical communication systems for the new warfare - final report

Authors:

  • Ahlin Lars
  • Linder Sara
  • Nilsson Jan
  • Tullberg Hugo
  • Wiklundh Kia

Publish date: 2005-01-01

Report number: FOI-R--1824--SE

Pages: 27

Written in: Swedish

Abstract

The purpose with this report is to summarize the activities within the project Tactical Communication Systems for the New Warfare. A communication system capable of adapting to the radio channel, user demands and network properties is expected to benefit compared to a non-adaptive system. Different adaptive technical solutions for a radio link have been investigated. The results show that a system with adaptive modulation and receive diversity has higher throughput than a system without receive diversity. Furthermore, a system with receive diversity is less sensitive to delays of feedback information. A communication system based on OFDM and adaptive modulation was used for simulations. Moreover, a demonstrator has been further developed where an adaptive and a static system can be compared in different military scenarios. Furthermore, interference management for flexible radio systems has been studied. The purpose is to derive approximations of interference signals to predict the impact on digital communication systems. The work shows that the measure Amplitude Probability Distribution (APD) is useful to estimate the impact on uncoded and coded digital systems. Within the project, our strategy for the research and development within the area of tactical communications for the Armed Forces has been worked out.