Quality-of-information aware networking for tactical military networks

A. Bar-Noy, G. Cirincione, R. Govindan, S. Krishnamurthy, T. F. LaPorta, P. Mohapatra, M. Neely, A. Yener
2011 2011 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)  
In tactical military networks, decisions must often be made quickly based on information at hand. It is a challenge to provide decision makers with a notion of the quality of the information they have, or to provide a method by which decision makers can specify a required quality of information. It is a further challenge to honor requests for a required quality of information when selecting information sources, transporting information through a highly-dynamic network, and perhaps performing
more » ... cessing on that information. In this paper we motivate the need for a general, but formal, definition of qualityof-information so that this metric may be specified and potentially optimized by algorithms that operate a tactical network. Furthermore, we define a new notion, the operational information content capacity, to capture the amount and quality of information that a network can deliver.
doi:10.1109/percomw.2011.5766887 dblp:conf/percom/Bar-NoyCGKLMNY11 fatcat:uvaa6veyavfrxbf447czuj7w7i