Dynamic range extension using HARLEQUIN and HAIL
Mathew Elliot, Thomas Stevens · 2016
As RF environments become more complex from both targeted attacks and challenging RF propagation environments (e.g. urban), pre-planned placement of deployed communications elements becomes arduous for the network planner supporting the digital battlefield. We propose a novel dynamic range extension approach that builds upon our extant planning and optimisation tool, HARLEQUIN, to automatically and optimally place communication relay nodes, in order to dynamically address network survivability in complex environments. Furthermore we reduce integration burden on extant systems by the development of an abstraction layer, HAIL. Finally, we validated the approach using an emulated laboratory environment.