Using Standards to Integrate Autonomous EMSO Maneuver in EMSO Planning and Execution

The IEEE 1900.5.2 Standard Method for Modeling Spectrum Consumption is completing a three-year effort to revise the standard with lessons learned from trying to create tools that use it. This new revision includes new modeling concepts, data schemas, verification rules, improved algorithms, and better explanations. These changes are particularly appropriate to support the multiple activities of EMSO. The most recent successes have been in the development of EMBM prototype planning tools. However, the role of spectrum consumption models (SCMs) extends well beyond that. SCMs are a means to give policy to spectrum dependent systems and to manage autonomous behavior that is part of dynamic spectrum access. New work intends to create an equivalent concept for sensing, that captures not only sensed observations but also the sensor characteristics at the time of sensing. The goal is to allow a field of inexpensive sensors that warfighters can deploy in the field to create a near real time understanding of the EMOE. This new sensing standard intends also to be a means to define sensing policy and sensing tasks. Finally, we want to combine the spectrum consumption and sensing approaches to support the development of autonomous maneuver and plays. This presentation will cover both the successes we have had using the standards in planning and the vision for the role these standards could play in achieving ESMO Superiority.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Dr. John A. Stine is the Head of MITRE’s Operations Research (OR) Department. Prior to joining MITRE, John served 20 years as an engineer and as an OR analyst in the U.S. Army. He served in all company level leadership positions and in battalion, brigade, and division staff positions. He taught electrical engineering at the United States Military Academy. He was the coordinating analyst in the Army’s first tactical networking experiments. In his nearly twenty years at MITRE, he has led internally funded research in mobile ad hoc networking, consulted with the DoD on spectrum management issues authoring “Spectrum Management 101,” consulted with Army analysis agencies on modeling and analysis of tactical networks specializing in operational effectiveness, designed the link layer and networking portions of the Future Narrowband Waveform (FNB), led research in building position, navigation, and timing directly into communication waveforms, consulted on how to build electromagnetic battle management (EMBM) systems, and was the principle investigator of MITRE’s internal research in developing EMBM tools. He is the inventor of model-based spectrum management and spectrum consumption modeling and the editor of the recently published IEEE 1900.5.2 Standard Method for Modeling Spectrum Consumption. He is currently the chair of the IEEE 1900.5 Standards Workgroup on Architecture and Policy for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks. John has authored over 30 peer reviewed papers and has patents in wireless networking and spectrum management.

John earned his B.S. degree in General Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and his M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Manufacturing Systems Engineering and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.