System design of tactical communications with Solar Blind Ultraviolet Non Line-of-Sight systems

Author

Moriarty, Dan ; Hombs, Brandon

Author_Institution

BAE Syst. Adv. Syst.&Technol., Nashua, NH, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

18-21 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Recent advances in component technology now make it possible to exploit of the ultraviolet (UV) spectrum for short range, medium bandwidth, low probability of intercept (LPI) communications. BAE Systems will report on analysis of hardware and phenomenology for the near term application of solar blind ultraviolet non line-of-sight communications (SB UV NLOS Comm). Communications in the presence of radio frequency (RF) interference from Counter-IED jamming is a formidable challenge for our war-fighters on the battlefield of today and the future. Here we discuss approaches to exploit the solar blind (SB) ultraviolet (UV) spectrum to provide a short range (~500m), medium bandwidth (28.8 kbps), non-line-of-sight (NLOS), networked communications system as an alternative to traditional RF communications systems.

Keywords

military communication; optical communication; RF communication systems; bit rate 28.8 kbit/s; counter LED jamming; distance 0 m to 500 m; low probability of intercept communications; nonline of sight system; radio frequency interference; solar blind ultraviolet spectrum; tactical communication; Batteries; Bit error rate; Decoding; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Fading; Power system relaying; Protocols; Relays; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2009. MILCOM 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5238-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5239-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2009.5379755

Filename

5379755