Standards and protocols for interoperation of unattended groundsensors

摘要

Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) systems have special requirements for long-duration, low-power operation, exfiltration of sensor reports and imagery over intermittent terrestrial or satellite communications channels, sensor description, management, discovery, configuration and command-and-control. This paper surveys a number existing and proposed software architectures for networked sensors, to include publish/subscribe brokered frameworks, with respect to the specific features needed for standards and protocols for UGS interoperability.