Section: Application Domains

Military SDR and Public Safety

Military applications have developed specific solutions for sdr . In France, Thales is a major actor (e.g. project Essor defining inter-operability between European military radio) and abroad the Join Tactical Radio System, and Darpa focus on Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (manet s) have brought important deliverables, like the Software Communications Architecture (sca ) for instance  [38] .

Recent natural disasters have brought considerable attention to the need of enhanced public safety communication abroad  [36] . Socrate in not currently implied in any military or public safety research programs but is aware of the potential importance this domain may take in Europe in a near future.