Supporting C2 with a service oriented framework for opportunistic sensors and sensor networks
Marianela García Lozano, Pontus Hörling, Farshad Moradi, Edward Tjörnhammar · 2009
Abstract—Getting information at the right time and to the right person is of great importance when managing military operations. Sensors play a vital role in gathering and providing data, but current sensors often require complicated configuration and set-up procedures before being operational. This is time consuming and requires specialized knowledge of the operator. The operator’s work load could be greatly simplified if the sensors and the network instead had capabilities for: agile dynamic composition and automatic configuration, provided sensor ad-hoc connectivity, published sensor information as services and allowed the flexibility of choosing and combining those services to meet the end user’s needs. Instead of focusing on single data streams end users could be given a variety of sensor services for their specific situation. The users would not need to care about the underlying infrastructure. We consider Command and Control work and propose a framework that combines the ad-hoc properties of opportunistic sensors and sensor networks with the transparency and generality of the service oriented architectures, thus providing more agile C2 systems. We describe the framework requirements and how they were obtained. We also describe the prototype architecture and implementation. I.