A Mobile Agent-Based Communications Middleware for Data Streaming in the Battlefield

Abstract

In this paper we introduce the FlexFeed framework in the context of military combat operations. FlexFeed realizes the notion of agile computing for data-streaming and implements a flexible, robust and efficient publish/subscribe infrastructure for dynamic ad hoc environments under resource and policy constraints. The framework uses mobile software agents for underlying configuration and policy enforcement. The paper illustrates the effectiveness of the framework with quantitative experiments over simulated scenarios.