COMBAT: mobile-Cloud-based cOmpute/coMmunications infrastructure for BATtlefield applications

Tolga Soyata; Rajani Muraleedharan; Jonathan Langdon; Colin Funai; Scott Ames; Minseok Kwon; Wendi Heinzelman

doi:10.1117/12.919146

7 May 2012 COMBAT: mobile-Cloud-based cOmpute/coMmunications infrastructure for BATtlefield applications

Tolga Soyata, Rajani Muraleedharan, Jonathan Langdon, Colin Funai, Scott Ames, Minseok Kwon, Wendi Heinzelman

Proceedings Volume 8403, Modeling and Simulation for Defense Systems and Applications VII; 84030K (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.919146
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

The amount of data processed annually over the Internet has crossed the zetabyte boundary, yet this Big Data cannot be efficiently processed or stored using today's mobile devices. Parallel to this explosive growth in data, a substantial increase in mobile compute-capability and the advances in cloud computing have brought the state-of-the- art in mobile-cloud computing to an inflection point, where the right architecture may allow mobile devices to run applications utilizing Big Data and intensive computing. In this paper, we propose the MObile Cloud-based Hybrid Architecture (MOCHA), which formulates a solution to permit mobile-cloud computing applications such as object recognition in the battlefield by introducing a mid-stage compute- and storage-layer, called the cloudlet. MOCHA is built on the key observation that many mobile-cloud applications have the following characteristics: 1) they are compute-intensive, requiring the compute-power of a supercomputer, and 2) they use Big Data, requiring a communications link to cloud-based database sources in near-real-time. In this paper, we describe the operation of MOCHA in battlefield applications, by formulating the aforementioned mobile and cloudlet to be housed within a soldier's vest and inside a military vehicle, respectively, and enabling access to the cloud through high latency satellite links. We provide simulations using the traditional mobile-cloud approach as well as utilizing MOCHA with a mid-stage cloudlet to quantify the utility of this architecture. We show that the MOCHA platform for mobile-cloud computing promises a future for critical battlefield applications that access Big Data, which is currently not possible using existing technology.

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Tolga Soyata, Rajani Muraleedharan, Jonathan Langdon, Colin Funai, Scott Ames, Minseok Kwon, and Wendi Heinzelman "COMBAT: mobile-Cloud-based cOmpute/coMmunications infrastructure for BATtlefield applications", Proc. SPIE 8403, Modeling and Simulation for Defense Systems and Applications VII, 84030K (7 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.919146

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