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Military Enterprise Wireless Communications Architecture Power Analysis

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Technological advances in software-defined radios (SDRs), high-speed serial buses, and high-performance computing promise a significant power reduction if adopted for deployed military wireless communications applications. This paper presents a simple mathematical power consumption model to simulate and quantify the power requirements for two communications architectures in an expeditionary command, control, communications, and computers environment. Analysis and comparison suggest that an enterprise architecture of SDRs operating under ordinary loads could result in a system-wide power reduction of 11% when compared to the currently employed architecture under the same conditions. Depending on usage profiles and equipment mix, the lower and upper bounds for system-wide power reduction by adopting an enterprise architecture were 6% and 31%, respectively.

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Abbreviations

D :

Duty cycle [dimensionless]

EWC:

Enterprise wireless communications

MOSA:

Modular open-source architecture

MWC:

Military wireless communications

P con :

Power consumption [W·s]

P contotal :

Total power consumption system [W·s]

P total :

Total instantaneous power [W]

P xxx :

Instantaneous power for component xxx [W]

RHM:

Radio head module

RF:

Radio frequency

SCA:

Software communications architecture

SDR:

Software-defined radio

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Acknowledgments

This work was sponsored by Naval Postgraduate School mission funds under the joint technical supervision of the Dean of Research and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command.

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  1. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, CA, USA

    Howen Fernando

  2. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA

    Ronald Giachetti & Anthony Pollman

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  1. Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Stephen Adams

  2. Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Peter A. Beling

  3. Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    James H. Lambert

  4. Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    William T. Scherer

  5. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Cody H. Fleming

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Fernando, H., Giachetti, R., Pollman, A. (2019). Military Enterprise Wireless Communications Architecture Power Analysis. In: Adams, S., Beling, P., Lambert, J., Scherer, W., Fleming, C. (eds) Systems Engineering in Context. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00114-8_4

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