Agile TM-UWB Wireless Network for Command and Control Systems

The innovation of this project is the development of an agile Time-Modulated Ultra-wideband (TM-UWB) wireless network for military’s Command and Control Systems. The wireless network proposed herein will fully take advantage of TM-UWB’s unique features to form an agile LPI, LPD, and anti-jamming Physical (PHY) Layer and Media Access Control (MAC) Layer that can automatically assign channels, adjust integration, header length, transmission power, receiver gain, etc. to adapt itself to different RF and physical environment and to meet different operational requirements. Besides the agile PHY and MAC layers, an intelligent ad hoc networking protocol will be used for routing. The proposed routing protocol is call MAR (Mobile Agent Routing), which is based on the mobile multi-agent paradigm developed by Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) over the last 15 years. MAR will allow every node in the system to function as a relay node. The message in the network will automatically search for a route to deliver from the source to the destination regardless changes in the network connectivity. The integration of these innovative TM-UWB PHY, MAC, and network layers will form an agile, LPI, LPD, and anti-jamming wireless network for military’s Command and Control Systems.