Harris Corporation Completes Latest Round of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking Technology (MANET) Field Testing
September 22 2004 - 9:08AM
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Harris Corporation Completes Latest Round of Mobile Ad-Hoc
Networking Technology (MANET) Field Testing ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.,
Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS)
today announced the completion of a third successful field
demonstration test validating its open-architecture, Mobile Ad-hoc
Networking (MANET) waveform. MANET techniques are critical to the
success of emerging modern warfare concepts and are required to
support communications for mobile military platforms, including
ships, aircraft and ground vehicles operating in a highly dynamic
and mobile tactical communications network without fixed
infrastructure. The announcement was made during the 2004 Network
Centric Ops Conference and Expo (Harris Booth #522), held September
21-23 at the Atlantic City Convention Center. Much of the focus
during the June 2004 demonstrations involved testing of user
applications operating over the MANET topology. Voice over Internet
Protocol (VoIP) conferencing, streaming video, collaborative
planning, email messaging and location data reporting were
successfully demonstrated. Other testing focused on network
self-organization and self-healing as nodes enter and exit the
network; link recovery from failures due to terrain-induced
blockage; frequency reuse to improve bandwidth; and adaptive
channel capacity management to dynamically meet changes in node
traffic. The Harris-developed communications waveform was utilized
to adaptively schedule seamless link connections between multiple
nodes operating in a mobile ad hoc network. The waveform enables
directional antennas to form an on-the-move mesh network topology
to meet aggregate traffic demands of the battlespace of the future.
The field demonstration tested 15 network nodes, 14 mobile nodes
and one fixed node to provide a quantitative measurement of network
performance under conditions of extreme mobility and
terrain-induced link blockages from buildings and dense foliage.
The intent was to create realistic operational conditions that
result in frequent changes to the communications link and network
routing state in order to measure the ability of the system to
dynamically adapt. "Untethering military commanders from their
static command and control platforms of the past by providing them
with robust and dynamically adaptable communications on-the-move
capabilities is essential to the fundamental tenets of net-centric
warfare," said Rich Folio, director, Technology and Internal
Research and Development (IR&D), Harris Corporation's
Government Communications Systems Division (GCSD). "The successes
of our MANET program and Harris' continued commitment to MANET
technology development are critical to the transformational
communications initiatives of the Department of Defense." Under a
three-year contract with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Harris developed
state-of- the-art technologies for controlling a network of mobile
nodes utilizing directional antennas. Completed under a continuing
Harris MANET IR&D effort, the most recent round of field
demonstration testing builds upon the numerous successes of the
August and December 2003 customer-funded field demonstration tests.
Harris is continuing its MANET technology development and has
additional field testing demonstrations planned for the near
future. Harris GCSD, one of four divisions within Harris
Corporation, conducts advanced research studies, develops
prototypes, and produces and supports state-of-the-art, assured
communications(TM) solutions and information systems that solve the
mission-critical challenges of its military and government
customers, while serving as the technology base for the company's
diverse commercial businesses. Harris Corporation, which also
provides tactical radio, microwave, broadcast and network products
and systems, serves customers in more than 150 countries. For more
information, visit http://www.harris.com/. Sound interesting? Find
great jobs at Harris: http://www.careers.harris.com/ DATASOURCE:
Harris Corporation CONTACT: Sleighton Meyer, Government
Communications Systems Division, +1-321-727-6514, or , or Tom
Hausman, Corporate Headquarters, +1-321-727-9131, or , both of
Harris Corporation Web site: http://www.harris.com/
http://www.careers.harris.com/
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