The Really Hard Problems

Abstract

This chapter recognizes several classes of radios. The radio designed and built for defense applications. When used in peacekeeping missions, such radios will be expected to comply with the regulatory requirements of the regions where they are used. It requires to have details of the radio networks of other allies and coalition partners, including waveforms, protocols, frequencies, and what conditions should be communicated with the partners. These radios are the gateway for many local users to reach many global networks and have access to numerous computer servers and database servers through those gateways. Most such radios are designed to have considerable built-in intelligence; in addition, the access to intelligent pull and push services through their networks will be very significant. The information available to such a radio is limited by the bandwidth of the most restrictive wireless links providing the access, by the battery power available, and by the total time the mission must be operative on that battery power. © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.