A Hybrid, Large-scale Wireless Sensor Network for Missile Defense

Author

Katopodis, Panagiotis ; Katsis, Grigorios ; Walker, Owens ; Tummala, Murali ; Michael, J. Bret

Author_Institution

Naval Postgraduate Sch., Monterey

fYear

2007

fDate

16-18 April 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We introduce a hybrid, large-scale wireless sensor network (WSN) for missile defense that consists of terrestrial and satellite nodes. Rather than treating each node as an individual system, we model this sensor network as a system-of-systems with the objective of realtime tracking of multiple ballistic missile threats. We present a hybrid routing algorithm based on a combination of data centric routing concepts and clustering mechanisms. Through simulation, it is shown that the performance of this hybrid algorithm significantly improves data throughput without sacrificing the real-time data delivery requirements associated with missile tracking applications.

Keywords

aircraft communication; military communication; missile guidance; radio tracking; telecommunication network routing; wireless sensor networks; clustering mechanism; data centric routing; hybrid large-scale wireless sensor network; missile defense; multiple ballistic missile threat realtime tracking; satellite node; system-of-systems; terrestrial node; Clustering algorithms; Infrared sensors; Large-scale systems; Low earth orbit satellites; Missiles; Routing; Target tracking; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless sensor network; ballistic missile defense; clustering; data aggregation; data centric routing; system-of-systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System of Systems Engineering, 2007. SoSE '07. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1159-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1160-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SYSOSE.2007.4304261

Filename

4304261