MILCOM '98 Papers

MILCOM '98 Unclassified Sessions

MILCOM '98 unclassified technical session are listed below. Click on the session number to go to the list of papers in that session. Click on the paper title to view the paper. Note that some papers were not available at the time of publication of the proceedings. All papers provided were published in the MILCOM '98 Conference Proceedings. Use of these papers is governed by IEEE's copyright policies.

Communications Systems	Mobile Communications	Networks	Communications Technology	Signal Processing
Session 1 - Satellite Communications I	Session 2 - Wireless Information Systems	Session 3 - ATM I	Session 4 - Advanced Modulation Techniques I	Session 5 - Adaptive Processing
Session 6 - Packet and Terrestrial Radio Systems	Session 7 - Access Control	Session 8 - Network Architectures and Protocols I	Session 9 - Advanced Antenna and Receiver Systems	Session 10 - Advanced Communications Topics I
Session 11 - HF, Meteor Burst and Troposcatter Systems	Session 12 - Mobile Networks: Routing and Mobility Management	Session 13 - Tactical Internet	Session 14 - Spread Spectrum and Antijam Advances	Session 15 - Advanced Modulation Techniques II
Session 16 - Satellite Communications II	Session 17 - Multimedia Wireless LANs	Session 18 - Network Management	Session 19 - Advanced Communications Topics II	Session 20 - Multicarrier and OFDM Techniques
Session 21 - Low Power Communications	Session 22 - Multiuser Interference Suppression	Session 23 - ATM II	Session 24 - Exploitation of Commercial Technology	Session 25 - Advanced Wireless Techniques for Fading/Multipath Channels
Session 26 - Modeling and Simulation	Session 27 - Digitization of the Battlefield	Session 28 - Network Architecture and Protocols II	Session 29 - Advanced Coding Techniques	Session 30 - Information Security
Session 31 - Protocol Behavior in Military Wireless Systems

MILCOM '98 Unclassified Papers

Session 1 - Satellite Communications I

	Paper 1.1 - Prospects for Commercial Satellite Services at Q- and V-Bands
	Paper 1.2 - UHF DAMA Satellite Communications Network Control Station: Capabilities, Architecture and Performance
	Paper 1.3 - The Development of Military-COTS Mobile Satellite Earth Station
	Paper 1.4 - Integration of Military and Commercial SATCOM into the Defense Information Infrastructure
	Paper 1.5 - Potential Uses of Military Ka-Band for Wideband MILSATCOM Systems
	Paper 1.6 - Multiple Path Beyond-Line-of-Sight Communications (MUBLCOM)

Session 2 - Wireless Information Systems

	Paper 2.1 - The Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (ATN)
	Paper 2.2 - Broadband Wireless Communications via Stratospheric HALO™ Aircraft
	Paper 2.3 - Mobile and Wireless ATM (WATM) Defense Information Systems Network (DISN)
	Paper 2.4 - Application of Network Voice to Navy and DoD Telecommunications
	Paper 2.5 - A Novel Impulse Radio Network for Tactical Military Wireless Communications
	Paper 2.6 - CDMA Transmitter Filtering for Cellular Overlay Systems
	Paper 2.7 - A New Survivability Measure for Military Communication Networks

Session 3 - ATM I

	Paper 3.1 - Defense Information System Network (DISN) Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Goal Architecture and Transition Strategy
	Paper 3.2 - An ATM-Based Telecommunications Infrastructure for the New Mexico National Guard
	Paper 3.3 - Connection Precedence and Preemption in Military Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Networks
	Paper 3.4 - Evaluation of Network Performance Objectives over DISN ATM Connections
	Paper 3.5 - A Heuristic for Interoperability Assurance in ATM Networks
	Paper 3.6 - ATM Network-Based Integrated Battlespace Simulation with Multiple UAV-AWACS-Fighter Platforms
	Paper 3.7 - Defense Information Systems/NIPRNET Modeling and Analysis for Unclassified ATM Network

Session 4 - Advanced Modulation Techniques I

	Paper 4.1 - Adaptive Signaling for Multimedia Transmission in CDMA Cellular Radio Systems
	Paper 4.2 - Multimedia Overlay of Frequency Hop Spread Spectrum Communication Systems
	Paper 4.3 - Circular Trellis-Coded Modulation with High-Dimensional Simplex Signals
	Paper 4.4 - A Class of F-ary Convolutional Codes for Finite State ISI Channels
	Paper 4.5 - A Novel Broadband COFDM Modulation Scheme for Robust Communication over the Underwater Acoustic Channel
	Paper 4.6 - Spectrally Efficient High Data Rate Waveforms for the UFO SATCOM Channel
	Paper 4.7 - A Fractal Modulation Technique for Digital Communications Systems

Session 5 - Adaptive Processing

	Paper 5.1 - Protocol-Aided Channel Equalization for HF ATM Networks
	Paper 5.2 - MMSE Cyclic Equalization
	Paper 5.3 - Optimal Interception and Direction Finding of Signals in a Mobile Communication Network with Directive Antennas
	Paper 5.4 - An Iterative Blind Adaptive Receiver for DS-SSMA Systems
	Paper 5.5 - Performance Evaluation of Blind Channel Identification Methods Based on Oversampling
	Paper 5.6 - Turbo Codes with Channel Estimation and Dynamic Power Allocation for Anti-jam FH/SSMA
	Paper 5.7 - Blind Multichannel Identification for High-Speed TDMA
	Paper 5.8 - Performance Analysis of Compact Array Receiver for CDMA Cellular Communications

Session 6 - Packet and Terrestrial Radio Systems

	Paper 6.1 - On Some Challenges and Design Choices in Ad-Hoc Communications
	Paper 6.2 - Channel Access for Simultaneous Voice and Data Transmissions in Multiple-Hop Packet Radio Network
	Paper 6.3 - Simulation Model and Studies of MIL-STD-188-220A
	Paper 6.4 - An Incremental Algorithm for Broadcast Scheduling in Packet Radio Networks
	Paper 6.5 - Queuing Structures in SINCGARS Radio Networks
	Paper 6.6 - Multipath Tracking and Combining in Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum Packet-Radio Communications
	Paper 6.7 - Performance of Tactical VHF FH-Radios Referring to Radio Channel Measurements

Session 7 - Access Control

	Paper 7.1 - Clique Activation Multiple Access (CAMA): A Distributed Heuristic for Building Wireless Datagram Networks
	Paper 7.2 - Performance Analysis of Multichannel Wireless Access Protocol in the Presence of Bursty Packet Losses
	Paper 7.3 - On Sequence Sharing for Multi-Code DS/CDMA Systems
	Paper 7.4 - Multi-Channel Channel-Access Schemes for Distributed Direct -Sequence Networks
	Paper 7.5 - Outage Probability of Multi-Code DS-CDMA with Linear Interference Suppression
	Paper 7.6 - Efficient Net Access Scheduler in MIL-STD-188-220A
	Paper 7.7 - Multiple Priority Distributed Round Robin MAC Protocol for Satellite ATM

Session 8 - Network Architectures and Protocols I

	Paper 8.1 - Performance of Transport Protocols over Satellite Communications Links
	Paper 8.2 - Performance Enhancement for TCP/IP on a Satellite Channel
	Paper 8.3 - A New Adaptive FEC Scheme for Wireless ATM Networks
	Paper 8.4 - Adaptive Transmission Protocols for Frequency-Hop Radio Networks
	Paper 8.5 - Layer 3 Switching Alternatives
	Paper 8.6 - Testing Environment for Innovative Transport Protocols
	Paper 8.7 - Next Generation Internet Protocol-Testbed Experience

Session 9 - Advanced Antenna and Receiver Systems

	Paper 9.1 - The Design of an Analogue RF Front End for a Multi-Role Radio
	Paper 9.2 - Performance of Adaptive Antennas in the Presence of Sky-Wave Multipath Propagation
	Paper 9.3 - Identification of Suitable Carrier Frequency for Mobile Terrestrial Communication Systems with Low Antenna Heights
	Paper 9.4 - Mobile Digital Communications Using Phase Conjugating Arrays
	Paper 9.5 - The Numerically Stable QRD-DMS Receiver and Overlapped Channel Transmission Technique for Slow Frequency Hopped Multiple Access Networks
	Paper 9.6 - Fast Joint Space-Time Adaptive Processing for DS/SS Antenna Array Systems
	Paper 9.7 - An Adaptive Array Based Propagation Delay Estimation for DS-CDMA Communication Systems

Session 10 - Advanced Communications Topics I

	Paper 10.1 - A Simulation Study of Adaptive Filtering Applied to MLSE-PSP Receivers
	Paper 10.2 - Developments in the Use of Wavelets in Communication Systems
	Paper 10.3 - A New Technique for Adaptive Scalar Quantization of Image Sub-Band Coefficients
	Paper 10.4 - On a Pitch Alteration Technique by Cepstrum Analysis of Flattened Excitation Spectrum
	Paper 10.5 - On a Codebook Searching Technique by the Regular Pulse Decimation in the CELP Type Vocoder
	Paper 10.6 - MAP Demodulator for Time-Selective Fading CDMA Channels
	Paper 10.7 - Comparisons of CFAR Burst Detection Schemes for TDMA Systems Employing Constant Modulus Modulation Format

Session 11 - HF, Meteor Burst and Troposcatter Systems

	Paper 11.1 - Diversity with High Bit-Rate HF Multi-tone Modem
	Paper 11.2 - A Programmable HF Adaptive-Antenna Receiving System
	Paper 11.3 - Spectrum Efficient A/J Waveform for 21st Century HF Communications
	Paper 11.4 - New Studies about a High Data Rate HF Parallel Modem
	Paper 11.5 - Third-Generation Technologies for HF Radio Networking
	Paper 11.6 - Adaptive-Rate Transmission with Coding and Interleaving for a Further Improvement in the Throughput of Meteor-Burst Communication Systems
	Paper 11.7 - Error-Control for Tactical ATM

Session 12 - Mobile Networks: Routing and Mobility Management

	Paper 12.1 - Application of Mobile IP to Tactical Mobile Internetworking
	Paper 12.2 - Self-Configuration Management System Design for Tactical Battlefield Networks
	Paper 12.3 - Integration of Commercial Routing with Flood Search Routing
	Paper 12.4 - Applicability of Temporally-Ordered Routing Algorithm for Use in Mobile Tactical Networks
	Paper 12.5 - Simulation of Routing Protocols for Autonomous Wireless Local Area Networks
	Paper 12.6 - Synchronized End-to-end Multicast in Real-Time Packet Cellular Networks
	Paper 12.7 - Mobility Support for Core-Manager Based Scalable Multicast Routing

Session 13 - Tactical Internet

	Paper 13.1 - Experiences Incorporating a Force-Projected Brigade into a Divisional Tactical Internet
	Paper 13.2 - Improved Performance for Integrated Voice and Data in a Tactical Packet Radio Network
	Paper 13.3 - Multicasting with the Near Term Digital Radio (NTDR) in the Tactical Internet
	Paper 13.4 - Virtual Network Representations of Information Warfare Battlespace
	Paper 13.5 - A Network-Centric Architecture for Distributed C4I Systems
	Paper 13.6 - Mobile Multi-Media Communication for the Tactical Battlefield

Session 14 - Spread Spectrum and Antijam Advances

	Paper 14.1 - Follower Jammer Considerations for Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum
	Paper 14.2 - Multitone Jamming Rejection of FFH/BFSK Self-Normalizing Receiver
	Paper 14.3 - Performance Analysis of SFH/NCBFSK Communication System with Rate 1/2 Convolutional Coding in the Presence of Partial- Band Noise Jamming
	Paper 14.4 - Comparing FH/SSMA and DS/CDMA Networks: Capacity vs. Anti-Jam Margin Tradeoff
	Paper 14.5 - Complex Processing in Quarternary Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum Receivers
	Paper 14.6 - C. W. Interference Excision in a DS/SS Communication System Using Spectrally Defined Spreading/Despreading Functions
	Paper 14.7 - Interference in Mobile Cellular CDMA Forward Traffic Channels
	Paper 14.8 - Cramer-Rao Bounds for Communication in Sub-Gaussian Alpha-Stable Impulsive Interference

Session 15 - Advanced Modulation Techniques II

	Paper 15.1 - Pulse Driven Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying
	Paper 15.2 - Threshold Detection Performance of GMSK Signal with BT = 0.5
	Paper 15.3 - Performance of a Suboptimal Noncoherent Receiver for Continuous Phase Modulation
	Paper 15.4 - Detection of CPFSK Signals Using Per Survivor Processing
	Paper 15.5 - Multiple-Access Performance Limits with Time Hopping and Pulse Position Modulation
	Paper 15.6 - Service-Variable Multidimensional DS/CDMA Systems

Session 16 - Satellite Communications II

	Paper 16.1 - X-Band, Ka-Band and Future MILSATCOM Requirements: An Outing in Trade Space
	Paper 16.2 - ATM-SATCOM Interoperability Testing between NC³A and International Partners
	Paper 16.3 - ATM Over Satellite for the Warfighter
	Paper 16.4 - Performance of a Hybrid Terrestrial/Satellite ATM Network - Experimental Results for CBR Traffic CTD and CDV QoS Parameters
	Paper 16.5 - Universal Modem System - "The Warfighter's Edge"
	Paper 16.6 - Bandwidth-Efficient Channel Spacing for On-Board-Processing Satellite Communications

Session 17 - Multimedia Wireless LANs

	Paper 17.1 - Inline Network Encryption for Multimedia Wireless LANs
	Paper 17.2 - Specification, Verification and Simulation of a Wireless LAN Protocol: MACAW
	Paper 17.3 - Robust SuperPoll Protocol for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
	Paper 17.4 - Tactical Communications Using the IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocol
	Paper 17.5 - Distributed Resource Allocation for DS-CDMA Based Multi-Media Wireless LANs
	Paper 17.6 - Implementation of a Wideband CDMA Mobile Communication Testbed

Session 18 - Network Management

	Paper 18.1 - Tactical Network Management for Preserving the QoS
	Paper 18.2 - Collaborative Network Management
	Paper 18.3 - Charging in ATM Networks Based on the Equivalent Capacity
	Paper 18.4 - Internetwork Traffic Management Enhancements: Evaluatio and Experimental Results
	Paper 18.5 - Adaptive Connection Admission Control for Mission Critical Real-Time Communication Networks
	Paper 18.6 - Battlefield Location Management Applications of SHAMAN
	Paper 18.7 - Information Exchange Requirements for DSCS/CSCI System/Network Management and Service Provisioning

Session 19 - Advanced Communications Topics II

	Paper 19.1 - Optimum Tradeoffs for Millimeter Wave and Infrared Satellite Communication
	Paper 19.2 - Development of Laser Crosslink for Airborne Operations
	Paper 19.3 - Portable High-Data-Rate Lasercom System
	Paper 19.4 - An Enhanced Spectral Analysis Tool (SAT) for Radio Frequency Interference Analysis and Spectrum Management
	Paper 19.5 - Architectural Considerations for a Family of Multi-Functional Tactical Intelligence Terminals
	Paper 19.6 - An Influence of Intentional Jamming Signal on DSP Based Demodulators
	Paper 19.7 - Performance of Spectral Line Detection Using Integrated Trispectrum

Session 20 - Multicarrier and OFDM Techniques

	Paper 20.1 - New Advances in Multi-Carrier Spread Spectrum Techniques for Tactical Communications
	Paper 20.2 - Multicarrier Spread Spectrum Performance in Fading Channels with Serial Concatenated Convolutional Coding
	Paper 20.3 - Impact of Multipath Fading and Partial-Band Interference on the Performance of a COFDM/CDMA Modulation Scheme for Robust Wireless Communications
	Paper 20.4 - Performance of a Spread Spectrum OFDM System in a Dispersive fading Channel with Interference
	Paper 20.5 - Peak to Average Power Ratio in Amplitude Clipped High Order OFDM
	Paper 20.6 - Frequency Offset Estimation in OFDM Using Sample Covariance
	Paper 20.7 - Performance of Nonlinearly Amplified Coded Multicarrier Spread Spectrum Systems in the Presence of Multipath Fading

Session 21 - Low Power Communications

	Paper 21.1 - Active Antenna Approach to High Efficiency Power Amplifiers with EMI Reduction
	Paper 21.2 - High Efficiency and High Linearity Microwave Power Amplifiers Based on Ultra-high fmax Selective Buried Sub-collector (SBSC) HBTs
	Paper 21.3 - VLSI Circuit Complexity and Decoding Performance Analysis for low-Power RSC Turbo-code and Iterative Block Decoders Design
	Paper 21.4 - An Efficient Timing Synchronization Technique for FFT Based Multi-Carrier Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Transceiver
	Paper 21.5 - Power vs. Performance Tradeoffs for Reduced Resolution Adaptive Equalizers
	Paper 21.6 - Multicasting in Energy-Limited Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks
	Paper 21.7 - The Optimal BPSK Demodulator with 1-bit A/D Front-end

Session 22 - Multiuser Interference Suppression

	Paper 22.1 - Adaptive Interference Suppression in CDMA Systems with Large Processing Gains
	Paper 22.2 - Blind Interference Suppression for DS-CDMA
	Paper 22.3 - Interference Immunity and Spectral Reuse in PCS Systems
	Paper 22.4 - Blind Adaptive Signal Reception for MC-CDMA Systems in Double Spread Channels
	Paper 22.5 - Analysis of MC-DS-CDMA Systems in Doubly Spread Channels
	Paper 22.6 - Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum with Multiuser Detection for Peer-to-Peer Packet Radio
	Paper 22.7 - An Adaptive Neural Network Receiver for CDMA Multi-User Interference Cancellation in Multipath Environments

Session 23 - ATM II

	Paper 23.1 - Proposals on Lossless and Statistical Traffic Shaping
	Paper 23.2 - A Hop-by-Hop, ER-Based Algorithm Applied in ABR Switches
	Paper 23.3 - A Framework of Flow Control in High-Speed ATM Wide Area Networks
	Paper 23.4 - BETTER: Handling Best Effort Traffic in the ATM Networks
	Paper 23.5 - Simple and New Algorithm for Capacity Related Reliability Analysis of ATM Transport Networks
	Paper 23.6 - A Methodology for Analyzing the Complexity and Performance of a Restoration Strategy Based on PNNI Routing in ATM Networks
	Paper 23.7 - Saturation Routing for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Networks

Session 24 - Exploitation of Commercial Technology

	Paper 24.1 - Globalstar for the Military
	Paper 24.2 - Application of IRIDIUM® System Technology to UAV Based PCS Services to the Warfighter
	Paper 24.3 - SOF Tactical Data Networks Using Commercially Available Packet Equipment
	Paper 24.4 - A Method and Metric for Quantitatively Defining Low Probability of Detection
	Paper 24.5 - An Analysis of Mitigation Techniques to Reduce the Impact of Nuisance Jamming and Interference Commercial SATCOM Links Supporting ATM Network Services
	Paper 24.6 - Customizing the MPEG Standard for Military Applications

Session 25 - Advanced Wireless Techniques for Fading/Multipath Channels

	Paper 25.1 - Performance Improvement of MLSE Receivers over Flat Fading Channels using Time-Averaged Channel Statistics
	Paper 25.2 - Multipath Acquisition for Rake reception in DS Packet-Radio Systems
	Paper 25.3 - Optimal Combining for Rake Reception in mobile Cellular CDMA Forward Links
	Paper 25.4 - A Lower Ordered HMM Approach to Blind Sequence Estimation
	Paper 25.5 - A New Method for Block Demodulation without Channel Estimation
	Paper 25.6 - Mobile Peer-to-Peer Frequency-Hopping Communications
	Paper 25.7 - Performance Analysis of Direct Sequence Differential Phase Shift Keying (DS-DPSK) with Self- Normalization and L-Fold Diversity in a Fading Environment

Session 26 - Modeling and Simulation

	Paper 26.1 - Efficient Simulation of TCP/IP for Mobile Wireless Communications Using Importance Sampling
	Paper 26.2 - Modeling and Simulation of Situational Awareness in the Tactical Internet
	Paper 26.3 - Asynchronous Error Event Sampling: An Adaptive Importance Sampling Technique for Fast Measurement of Low Error Rates in Digital Communication Systems
	Paper 26.4 - Performance Analysis of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Land Mobile Satellite Using Moment Technique
	Paper 26.5 - Queue Length Performance of Some Non-Exhaustive Polling Models with Bernoulli Feedback
	Paper 26.6 - A Computer Simulator of a Tactical Communication System

Session 27 - Digitization of the Battlefield

	Paper 27.1 - Wireless Multiple Access Networks for Survivable Battlefield Communications
	Paper 27.2 - Soldier Phone: An Innovative Approach to Wireless Multimedia Communications
	Paper 27.3 - Network-Conscious Compressed Image Transmission over Battlefield Networks
	Paper 27.4 - A Highly Miniaturized, Battery Operated, Commandable, Digital Wireless Camera
	Paper 27.5 - Sensor Link protocol: Linking Sensor Systems to the Digital Battlefield
	Paper 27.6 - Adaptive All-Source Data Fusion System Development
	Paper 27.7 - Implementing Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Technologies into a Navy Tactical Display Communication

Session 28 - Network Architecture and Protocols II

	Paper 28.1 - Vulnerabilities of Reliable Multicast Protocols
	Paper 28.2 - Performance Under a Failure of Wide-Area Datagram Networks with Unicast and Multicast Traffic Routing
	Paper 28.3 - Asynchronous Feedback of Network Capacity for Application Layer Tuning
	Paper 28.4 - BMDO Virtual Data Center (VDC) Network Traffic Analysis
	Paper 28.5 - MIL-STD-188-220A Parameter Optimization for Tactical Internet
	Paper 28.6 - Generation of Realizable Conformance Tests Under Timing Constraints
	Paper 28.7 - Network Frequency Synchronization with Applications - Part I: General Theory

Session 29 - Advanced Coding Techniques

	Paper 29.1 - Performance of Turbo-Coded FH-SS with Partial-Band Interference and Rayleigh Fading
	Paper 29.2 - Turbo Code Performance in Partial-Band Jamming
	Paper 29.3 - On the Performance of Turbo Codes
	Paper 29.4 - Some Suboptimal Turbo Decoders and their Sensitivity to SNR Estimation Using DPSK Modulation
	Paper 29.5 - A Recursive Method for Calculating Error Probabilities for a Reed-Solomon Codeword with Bounded Distance Errors and Erasures Decoding
	Paper 29.6 - Implementation of Fixed-Delay Soft-Output Algorithms
	Paper 29.7 - Asymptotic Performance of a Coded Communications System with Orthogonal Signaling in Partial- Band Jamming

Session 30 - Information Security

	Paper 30.1 - A New Approach Towards Secure IFF Technique
	Paper 30.2 - Robust Re-Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
	Paper 30.3 - A Secure ATM VP Coordination Protocol
	Paper 30.4 - Techniques and Issues in Multicast security
	Paper 30.5 - Harris Customizable Crytographic Architecture
	Paper 30.6 - A Distributed Shared Key Generation Procedure Using Fractional Keys
	Paper 30.7 - A Methodology for Data Hiding Using Images

Session 31 - Protocol Behavior in Military Wireless Systems

	Paper 31.1 - Accelerating Data for the Warfighter
	Paper 31.2 - Mapping Commercial ATM to the Tactical Radio Environment
	Paper 31.3 - Feasibility Study of Erasure Correction for Multicast File Distribution Using the Network Simulator ns-2
	Paper 31.4 - Data Distribution Over IP in High Error Rate Military Radio Environments
	Paper 31.5 - The Effects of Asymmetric Satellite Networks of Protocols
	Paper 31.6 - Advanced Traffic Management for Multiservice ATM Networks

Comments to Ken Young (kcy@research.telcordia.com)