MILKOG - a cognitive radio electronics warfare agent architecture

The report documents investigations, design and development of agent controlled combined communication (COM), electronic surveillance (ES) and electronic attack (EA) nodes. The report outlines an overall architecture for and the conceptual design of the MILKOG communications and electronic warfare agent. The objective of MILKOG is to manage radio transceivers and the radio spectrum in such a way that both communication and electronic warfare requirements are taken into account. The report also describes a reduced-functionality experimental version of the MILKOG agent and multifunction (COM+ES+EA) platform, and documents some initial tests of a small system of MILKOG nodes. The experimental version of MILKOG demonstrates simple dynamic spectrum access where each agent is allowed to make its independent decision on which part of the spectrum to utilize. The demonstration functionality includes video transmission. It also demonstrates the combination of monitoring and jamming to form a reactive communications jammer functionality. It is expected that MILKOG will form an expandable basis for research on combined COM and EW radio nodes and smart communications electronic attack features. While the prototype system and the initial tests of this system provide some level of support for the hypothesis that agent coordinated communication and electronic warfare is beneficial, further work is clearly needed. Suggestions for such further work are provided.