Communications networks to support integrated intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance strike operations / Elham Ghashghai
- Bib ID:
- 3306538
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- Author:
- Ghashghai, Elham
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- Description:
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- Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2004
- xvii, 35 p. ; 28 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0833036645
- Series:
- Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-159
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Contents
- Preface iii
- Contents v
- Figures vii
- Summary ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Acronyms xv
- 1. Introduction 1
- Organization of This Report 4
- 2. Methodology 5
- Assumptions and Limitations 5
- Threats, Requirements, and Baselines 5
- Systems and Programs 6
- Data Rate Requirement 8
- 3. Analysis of Threats from Jamming and SIGINT Receivers 11
- Jamming Analysis 11
- Signal Detection Analysis 16
- Probability of Detection (PD) Versus Received Signal Power at the Receiver 16
- 4. Options to Mitigate Jamming and Increase LPI/LPD 22
- The CDL Family Provides an Adequate Capacity and Some Protection Against Detection and
- Jamming, But This May Not Be Enough 22
- Spreading the Signal Over Time and Bandwidth Increases LPI/LPD But Degrades Link
- Capacity 23
- Smart Antennae Increase Jam Resistance 23
- LPI/LPD Antenna Design Can Protect Against Silent Threats and a Severe Jamming
- Environment 25
- Spread Spectrum, Low Power, Low Sidelobe Techniques Can Be Combined for
- Intratheater Platforms 27
- Absorption Band Is a Viable Option for the Backbone Network But Not for Long-Range
- Intratheater Links 31
- A Laser Communication System Is the Most Robust Link Above the Cloud Level 32
- 5. The Answer Is in the Combination 34
- Bibliography 37
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- Figures
- 1.1 Integration of ISR and Fighter Platforms 3
- 2.1 Systems and Programs 8
- 2.2 Antenna Size, Data Rate, and Link Range Trade-Offs 9
- 3.1 X-Band Link Margin 13
- 3.2 Ku-Band Link Margin 14
- 3.3 Ka-Band Link Margin 15
- 3.4 Jammer Link Geometry 15
- 3.5 Energy Detector 16
- 3.6 Intercept Ranges As a Function of Transmitted Data Rate 19
- 3.7 Single-Channel Radiometer Intercept Carpet Plot Corresponding to the
- Following Detector Parameters: = 10-6; = 10-8 and = -170 dBm/Hz. 21
- 4.1 Phased Array Antenna Receiver Based on Link Range and Data Rate 24
- 4.2 Protecting Against Silent Threat 25
- 4.3 Maximum Beamwidth Allowable for Keeping the Main Beam Off the Ground
- 26
- 4.4 Suppressing Sidelobe Increases Antenna Size 27
- 4.5 Transmitter ERP in the Direction of SIGINT receiver vs. Intercept
- Sensitivity and Range 29
- 4.6 Link Range vs. Jammer Range for Various Jammer Transmit Powers and
- Gain (i.e., Jammer ERP) 31
- 5.1 Wideband Communications Options: New Systems Will Be Required
- 34.
- Notes:
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- "Rand Project Air Force."
- "Prepared for the United States Air Force."
- Bibliography: p. 35.
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