Guest editorialMilitary communications systems and technologies
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Guest editorial
No section of the global armed forces has changed more dramatically in the last 90 years than that related to integrated C5ISR (command, control, communications, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) systems. The modern combatant no longer relies on just the normal physical assets of warfare to ensure success “in theatre”, but also on a vast array of interconnected and interoperable communications systems including Satellite Communications (SATCOM), Joint
Gerard Parr holds the Full Chair in Telecommunications Engineering and is the coordinator of the Internet Technologies Research Group in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ulster Northern Ireland. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and PhD in Self Stabilizing Protocols which was conducted between Ulster and USC-ISI in Los Angeles. He has published widely in international peer-reviewed journals and IEEE conferences including IFIP/IEEE MMNS, IEEE WCNC, and IEEE MILCOM. Areas
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Gerard Parr holds the Full Chair in Telecommunications Engineering and is the coordinator of the Internet Technologies Research Group in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ulster Northern Ireland. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and PhD in Self Stabilizing Protocols which was conducted between Ulster and USC-ISI in Los Angeles. He has published widely in international peer-reviewed journals and IEEE conferences including IFIP/IEEE MMNS, IEEE WCNC, and IEEE MILCOM. Areas of research within the group include self-stabilizing protocols, interplanetary network protocols, ATM, CNNs and intelligent mobile agents in xDSL and SNMP, bandwidth provision over SONET/SDH and Policy-based Network Management. He is a founding Executive Director of the campus spin-off company (Causeway Data Communications Ltd) and holds a number of international patents. He also acts as a Technology Advisor to B-Secur Ltd which holds patents in integrated biometric sensors and spatial tracking technologies. He is a member of the UK EPSRC Communications Panel. More recently he has been invited to become a Member of the Technical Committees of the IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems, IEEE MILCOM 2004, IFIP/IEEE MMNS and IEEE IPOM. He is also an invited Member of the Editorial Panel for COMNET and the US International Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication. More recently he has been invited to become a member of the world’s first UK-China Research Network for Manufacturing, Automation and Computing with 16 UK Universities and 32 of the top Universities in China. More details of related research activities can be viewed at http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/staff/gp.parr.