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Ontology-based Context-aware Framework for Battlefield Surveillance Sensor Network System  

Shon, Ho-Sun (Department of Software, Chungbuk National University)
Park, Seong-Seung (Department of Software, Chungbuk National University)
Jeon, Seo-In (Department of Software, Chungbuk National University)
Ryu, Keun-Ho (Department of Software, Chungbuk National University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI / v.48, no.4, 2011 , pp. 9-20 More about this Journal
Abstract
Future warfare paradigm is changing to network-centric warfare and effects-based operations. In order to find first and strike the enemy in the battlefield, friendly unit requires real-time target acquisition, intelligence collection, accurate situation assessment, and timely decision. The rapid development in advanced sensor technology and wireless networks requires a significant change in operational concepts of the battlefield surveillance. In particular, the introduction of a battlefield surveillance sensor network system is a big challenge to the ground forces which have lack of automated information collection assets. Therefore this paper proposes an ontology-based context-aware framework for the battlefield surveillance sensor network system which is needed for early finding the enemy and visualizing the battlefield in the ground force operations. Compared with the performance of existing systems, the one of the proposed framework has shown highly positive results by applying the context systems evaluation method. The framework has also proven to be satisfactory by the structured evaluation method using device collaboration. Since the proposed ontology-based context-aware framework has a lot of advantages in terms of scalability and reusability, the ground force's reconnaissance and surveillance system can be widely applied to expand in the future. And, ontology-based model has some weak points such as ontology data size, processing time, and limitation of network bandwidth. However, these problems can be resolved by customizing properly to fit the mission and characteristics of the unit. Moreover, development of the next-generation communication infrastructure can expedite the intelligent surveillance and reconnaissance service and may be expected to contribute greatly to expanding the information capacity.
Keywords
전장감시 센서네트워크;상황인식 프레임워크;상황정보시스템;온톨로지모델;
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