Chairs:

Mr. Low Kah MengAssistant Director (Communications),

Systems and Capability Group 3

Mr. Ng Seng LeongAssistant Director (Maritime Systems), Systems and Capability Group 4

Communications in Spectrum Challenged Environment

Urban Area Scene-Based Localisationby Asst Prof Ngai-Man (Man) Cheung, SUTD

Indoor Relative Positioning Systemby Asst Prof Yuen Chau, SUTD

Soldier Body Area Networkby Asst Prof Tony Quek, SUTD

Mobile Base Stations Assisted D2D Networking for Tactical Communicationsby Assoc Prof Zhang Rui, NUS

DIRP 2016-08: Communicationsby Mr. Foo Jong Chin, Programme Manager (Communications), SCG3

2016-08 : Communications

Underwater Communications by Dr Tan Bien Aik, PMTS (DSO)

DIRP 2016-09: Underwater Communicationsby Mr. Ng Seng Leong, AD (MS), SCG4

Mr. Vincent Toh, Project Manager (Maritime Systems),

SCG4 (Point of Contact)

2016-09 : Underwater Communications

Urban Area Scene-Based Localisation (USBL)

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Asst Prof Ngai-Man (Man) Cheung

Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Indoor Relative

Positioning System

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Asst Prof Yuen Chau

Asst Prof Tan U-Xuan

Engineering Product Development

Singapore University of Technology

and Design

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Asst Prof Tony Quek, ISTD Pillar

SUTD

Soldier Body Area Networks

Mobile Base Station Assisted D2D Networking for Tactical Communications

Assoc Prof Zhang RuiDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering

National University of Singapore

2016-08 : Communications

2016-08 : Communications

The modern battlefield will be proliferated with unmanned andmanned entities. There will be many different communicationsnetworks supporting different applications which have to beseamless to work together in efficient ways to create impact tothe mission. FSTD is interested to seek innovative ideas andsolutions to enhance bandwidth usage and ensure connectivityacross this heterogeneous environment to overcome thechallenges of spectrum congestion, information security,robustness and resilience for operations.

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Expected Roles

Special Tasks

Teamwork & Networking

• unmanned and manned ops

• many & different networking

• multitude of applications

• seamless integration

• enhance bandwidth usage

• heterogeneous environment

• spectrum efficiency,

• information security,

• communications robustness

• resilience for operations

• cyber trusted

Communications R&T Challenges

Defence Innovative Research Proposal

Summary

Underwater Communications

Dr. Bien Aik TANPrincipal Research Scientist

DSO National Laboratories

Sensors Division – Underwater Warfare Programme –

Underwater Laboratory

http://noiselab.ucsd.edu/group/btan

2016-09 :

Underwater Communications

2019-09 : Underwater Communications

FSTD is interested in novel technologies, not limiting to traditional acoustic approach, that can facilitate short range and long range, point-to-point as well as network underwater communications in a shallow water environment.

The communications technologies should be energy efficient and with small form fit that can support both static and mobile underwater nodes operations.

FSTD is also keen to explore communications using optical technologies to support high rate data transfer in shallow and turbid water conditions.

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Underwater Communications

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Underwater communications: key enabling technology to fully exploit unmanned systems to protect our underwater space

Underwater Communications & Network for Swarm

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Image credited to University of Graz, Austria

Underwater communications and network technologies needed to support swarm of underwater robots

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