Adaptive Information Dissemination Over Tactical Edge Networks

Tactical edge networks are characterized by continuously changing link quality and topologies. Given the absence of pre-deployed infrastructure, MANET networks are often deployed at the tactical edge. Depending on factors such as location, mobility, terrain, and adversarial activity, the network may experience varying rates of churn as well as partitioning. Hence, it is typically difficult to pre-configure and optimize any network protocol to perform well across the spectrum of conditions that may occur during operations. Instead, protocols need to be able to observe the network conditions and adapt their behavior on a continuous basis to provide the best possible performance under varying circumstances. This paper focuses on Information Dissemination over tactical edge networks and in particular uses the Anglova scenario for experimental evaluation of an initial framework for network adaptation.