Employing SDN to control video streaming applications in military mobile networks

• Video streaming is an important service provided by surveillance systems to enhance situation awareness. However, in military systems, data acquisition heavily depends on the network infrastructure. In this application domain, units are spread and the distance between the sources of data and the decision makers may be very large. In the case of video streaming, the demand for high network throughput poses some extra requirements on the network. Considering the mobility patterns of the military units and the diversity of the new generations of sensors, especially those used by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), the configuration and the management of the network must be so dynamic and so sensitive to data flow parameters that manual configuration is not acceptable. For this reason, the capability of the network to configure itself to offer the necessary Quality of Service is a must. Using principles of Software Defined Networks (SDN), this paper presents an analysis of video streaming for military surveillance in which multiple UAVs are employed as data providers through an SDN-enabled network, with promising results. ©2017 by IEEE

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

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autonomous aerial vehicles

data acquisition

military communication

military computing

military systems

mobile radio

software defined networking

surveillance

video streaming

SDN

military mobile networks

surveillance systems

situation awareness

network infrastructure

application domain

mobility patterns

military units

military surveillance

data providers

software defined networks

data flow parameters

unmanned aerial vehicles

UAV

quality of service

Streaming media

Land vehicles

Measurement

Topology

Vehicle dynamics

Reconnaissance

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