Distributed cooperative task planning algorithm for multiple satellites in delayed communication environment

Multiple earth observing satellites need to communicate with each other to observe plenty of targets on the Earth together. The factors, such as external interference, result in satellite information interaction delays, which is unable to ensure the integrity and timeliness of the information on decision making for satellites. And the optimization of the planning result is affected. Therefore, the effect of communication delay is considered during the multi-satel ite coordinating process. For this problem, firstly, a distributed cooperative optimization problem for multiple satellites in the delayed communication environment is formulized. Secondly, based on both the analysis of the temporal sequence of tasks in a single satellite and the dynamically decoupled characteristics of the multi-satellite system, the environment information of multi-satellite distributed cooperative optimization is constructed on the basis of the directed acyclic graph（DAG）. Then, both a cooperative optimization decision making framework and a model are built according to the decentralized partial observable Markov decision process（DEC-POMDP）. After that, a satellite coordinating strategy aimed at different conditions of communication delay is mainly analyzed, and a unified processing strategy on communication delay is designed. An approximate cooperative optimization algorithm based on simulated annealing is proposed. Finally, the effectiveness and robustness of the method presented in this paper are verified via the simulation.

Multiple transformation analysis for interference separation in TDCS

Various types of interference signals limit the practical application of transform domain communication systems(TDCSs)in the severe electromagnetic field,an orthogonal basis learning method of transformation analysis(OBL-TA)is proposed to effectively address the problem of obtaining an optimal transform domain based on sparse representation.Then,the sparse availability is utilized to obtain the optimal transformation analysis by the iterative methods,which yields the sparse representation for transform domain(SRTD)in unrestricted form.In addition,the iterative version of SRTD(I-SRTD)in unrestricted form is obtained by decomposing the SRTD problem into three sub-problems and each sub-problem is iteratively solved by learning the best orthogonal basis.Furthermore,orthogonal basis learning via cost function minimization process is conducted by stochastic descent,which is assured to converge to a local minimum at least.Finally,the optimal transformation analysis is developed by the effectiveness of different transform domains according to the accuracy of the sparse representation and an optimal transformation analysis separately(OPTAS)is applied to the synthesized signal forms with conic alternatives,dualization,and smoothing.Simulation results demonstrate that the superiorities of the proposed methods achieve the optimal recovery and separation more rapidly and accurately than conventional methods.

A feedback-retransmission based asynchronous frequency hopping MAC protocol for military aeronautical ad hoc networks

Attacking time-sensitive targets has rigid demands for the timeliness and reliability of information transmission, while typical Media Access Control（MAC） designed for this application works well only in very light-load scenarios; as a consequence, the performances of system throughput and channel utilization are degraded. For this problem, a feedback-retransmission based asynchronous FRequency hopping Media Access（FRMA） control protocol is proposed. Burst communication, asynchronous Frequency Hopping（FH）, channel coding, and feedback retransmission are utilized in FRMA. With the mechanism of asynchronous FH, immediate packet transmission and multi-packet reception can be realized, and thus the timeliness is improved.Furthermore, reliability can be achieved via channel coding and feedback retransmission. With theories of queuing theory, Markov model, packets collision model, and discrete Laplace transformation, the formulas of packet success probability, system throughput, average packet end-to-end delay, and delay distribution are obtained. The approximation accuracy of theoretical derivation is verified by experimental results. Within a light-load network, the proposed FRMA has the ability of millisecond delay and 99% reliability as well as outperforms the non-feedback-retransmission based asynchronous frequency hopping media access control protocol.