Barrage relay networks: System & protocol design

Barrage relay networks (BRNs) are mobile ad hoc networks designed from the ground up to meet the demands of tactical edge communications. The fundamental building block of BRNs is not a point-to-point wireless link, but rather a rapid and robust broadcast mechanism that employs an autonomous cooperative communications scheme. Following a summary of basic BRN concepts, this paper demonstrates how the efficient barrage broadcast mechanism can be contained for unicast traffic via controlled barrage regions (CBRs). In particular, a protocol for CBR establishment is defined and formally verified.