2022
Guilherme Rotth Zibetti, Juliano Araujo Wickboldt, Edison Pignaton de Freitas
Context-Aware Environment Monitoring to Support LPWAN-based Battlefield Applications Journal Article
In: Computer Communications, 189 , pp. 18–27, 2022, ISSN: 0140-3664.
Abstract Links BibTeX Tags: Context-Awareness Internet of Things (IoT) Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN) Military & Tactical Networks Network Resilience
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title = {Context-Aware Environment Monitoring to Support LPWAN-based Battlefield Applications},
author = {Guilherme Rotth Zibetti and Juliano Araujo Wickboldt and Edison Pignaton de Freitas},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140366422000639},
doi = {10.1016/j.comcom.2022.02.020},
issn = {0140-3664},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-05-01},
urldate = {2021-08-06},
journal = {Computer Communications},
volume = {189},
pages = {18--27},
abstract = {The use of IoT-related technologies is growing in several areas. Applications of environmental monitoring, logistics, smart cities are examples of applications that benefit from advances in IoT. In the military context, IoT applications can support the decision-making process by delivering information collected directly from the battlefield to Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. Taking the benefit of the installed IoT network in the battlefield, the use of the data collected by the IoT nodes is a way to improve resiliency and increase the survivability of networks, as well as to optimize the use of available resources. Towards improving the communication network present on the battlefield, this work presents a context-aware environmental monitoring system that uses real-time battlefield information to increase military networks’ resilience and survivability. The proposed approach is validated by a proof-of-concept experiment. The obtained results show that the implementation of this system can improve the communication process even when the network is exposed to unfavorable climatic factors.},
keywords = {Context-Awareness, Internet of Things (IoT), Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN), Military & Tactical Networks, Network Resilience},
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The use of IoT-related technologies is growing in several areas. Applications of environmental monitoring, logistics, smart cities are examples of applications that benefit from advances in IoT. In the military context, IoT applications can support the decision-making process by delivering information collected directly from the battlefield to Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. Taking the benefit of the installed IoT network in the battlefield, the use of the data collected by the IoT nodes is a way to improve resiliency and increase the survivability of networks, as well as to optimize the use of available resources. Towards improving the communication network present on the battlefield, this work presents a context-aware environmental monitoring system that uses real-time battlefield information to increase military networks’ resilience and survivability. The proposed approach is validated by a proof-of-concept experiment. The obtained results show that the implementation of this system can improve the communication process even when the network is exposed to unfavorable climatic factors.