Radio networks for ground forces- Final Report

Authors:

  • Jimmi Grönkvist
  • Anders Hansson
  • Arwid Komulainen
  • Mattias Sköld
  • Ulf Sterner
  • Ulrika Uppman

Publish date: 2024-01-29

Report number: FOI-R--5531--SE

Pages: 24

Written in: Swedish

Keywords:

  • tactical radio network
  • SCB
  • UAV
  • brigade communication

Abstract

Military communication networks needs to efficiently enable communication for different scenarios both within and between different types of military units. This becomes more and more important due to the growth of the Swedish army, as the use of larger constellations as battalions and brigade becomes more common. The demand on network throughput is also expected to increase due to new sensors and a general faster battle progress, which will lead to needs for new and improved techniques. This final report summarizes the work done in the project Radionät för markförband (Radio networks for ground forces). The objective of the project has been to support the Swedish armed forces with information and knowledge of robust wireless communication, with a focus on improving the army's tactical radio networks and to investigate how these networks interact with each other. This is a very wide problem area so a few selected subareas have been chosen and studied. One example of this is the development of a concept with low-flying autonomous UAVs used to support the ground-based networks with an aim of increasing the capacity tenfold compared to current wideband networks. Further studies is needed for practical application but so far no obvious obstacles have been noted for the concept.