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Within the military environment it is important that effective communication lines are maintained so that critical messages are able to reach their destinations and remain secure. Currently the bulk of the communications infrastructure is preplanned prior to mission start, and requires manual intervention when reality fails to match the plan. The communication systems need to be highly flexible, and adaptable in the face of (unforeseen) hostile and adverse conditions.
We believe that this is where a combination of a distributed agent-based system and a reconfigurable peer-to-peer overlay network can be used help to provide a communication system that is robust and highly adaptable in the face of ever changing and adverse conditions with a minimal amount of planning and enable us to reduce the burden placed on dedicated staff in the field.
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Vaughan, R. et al. (2008). Distributed Multi-layered Network Management for NEC Using Multi-Agent Systems. In: Joseph, S., Despotovic, Z., Moro, G., Bergamaschi, S. (eds) Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing. AP2PC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4461. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79705-0_15
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