Sensing and Communications for Tactical Radio: Mapping the RF Weather

该项目研究侦听、定位和通信策略，以提高现代战术无线电网络的性能。这种网络面临着移动自组织网络(MANET)的所有众所周知的设计挑战，但伴随着竞争和敌对的操作环境的复杂性。通过利用无线电节点的功率来感知无线电频谱并在其上进行通信，分布式节点网络可以创建周围射频(RF)环境的详细图景：这些节点可以共同工作来绘制“RF天气图”。在这个项目中，我们将设计先进的传感和定位方法来准确地绘制射频频谱图，然后在通信系统设计中利用这一图。

This project investigates sensing, localisation and communication strategies to improve the performance of modern tactical radio networks. Such networks face all of the well-known design challenges of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) but with added complication of a contested and adversarial operating environment. By exploiting the power of radio nodes to sense the radio spectrum, as well as to communicate over it, a distributed network of nodes can create a detailed picture of the surrounding radio-frequency (RF) environment: the nodes can work together to map the “RF weather”. In this project we will design advanced sensing and localisation methods to accurately map the RF spectrum, and then exploit this map in communication system design.