Radar design and management in a networked environment

TLDR: The proposed system will also a yield a testbed for challenging networking research to develop fast protocols dealing with very high bit rate applications relying on multiple streams of time-critical data.

Abstract: Radar design and management concepts are presented for a networked environment to reduce the cost and dramatically enhance the performance of radar systems. The benefits attained by moving from a large centralized radar to a distributed cluster of smaller radars extend far beyond the reduction in cost and the increase in reliability. Additional advantages of multiple radar operation exploiting the ubiquitous networking technology are also presented. In addition to providing the impetus for novel radar algorithms and applications, the proposed system will also a yield a testbed for challenging networking research to develop fast protocols dealing with very high bit rate applications relying on multiple streams of time-critical data.