Situation Alignment for Distributed Operations
Michael J. Hirsch · 2020
In the absence of network and processing limitations, sharing all of the data collected to other nodes in the network will allow all nodes to produce the same understanding of all situations ongoing in the operating environment, i.e., all nodes situation awareness will be in alignment. However, when there are network or processing limitations across the network, not all collected data will be able to be shared to all nodes. This research is concerned with determining the subset of collected data that should be shared across the bandwidth constrained network in order to best align situational understanding across nodes of the network. Four mathematical formulations are derived, making use of Dempster-Shafer calculus, and applied to an illustrative example problem.