International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1999 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Visions of future airborne data acquisition systems include the “network in the sky”
concept where a test or training participant logs on to the range network, just like today's
computer users on the ground log onto the local area network (LAN). Through two-way
telemetry links, the test or training participant seamlessly becomes a node in the range
network. Thus, easily sharing data with event controllers and other airborne, ship-,
ground-, and space-based network nodes. Such a network would allow the conduct of
highly integrated test/training scenarios involving virtual and real participants without
requiring physical proximity. This technology has a high payoff for the warfighter,
making it a desirable objective of present and future DoD-funded development of data
acquisition systems.
This much-anticipated, future state-of-the-art in data acquisition will require extensive
changes from today's test/training instrumentation architecture. Based on technology that
is currently emerging for computer networks, this paper describes an evolutionary path
for data acquisition systems to follow in order to achieve the anticipated bandwidth
required for future bandwidth-intensive applications like the network in the sky. New
networking paradigms, like Sun's Jini™ project, point the way to impressive usability
with dramatically lower costs and network administration in the near term for ground-based
networks, but they require support for just-in-time delivery of software “drivers”
and other applications. These need gigabit network speeds to be viable. If this and other
new networking technology is to be transferred to the test/training domain, bit rates will
require two orders of magnitude improvement from today's 10-megabit range.
This paper explores the technological and political telemetry issues that must be
addressed before there can be a network in the sky (or anywhere else).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/607310 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Gardner, Lee S., Jones, Charles |
| Contributors | Edwards Air Force Base |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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