Preface

Abstract

This special issue is entitled “Military Communications Systems” and contains 15 carefully selected papers, among them 5 papers was presented during 5th NATO Regional Military Communications and Information Systems (NATO RCMCIS’2003) while the rest 10 papers are planning to be presented during this year 6th NATO RCMCIS2004. The NATO RCMCIS Conference is the annual event since 1999 and it takes place in Zegrze. It is common activity of three organizations: Military Communication Institute from Zegrze (Poland), NATO NC3A Agency from Den Haag (The Netherlands) and Military University of Technology from Warsaw (Poland). The general aim of the conference is to gather the experts from NATO countries and to discuss the issues corresponding to the development of military communications and information systems. 
Developing an effective military communications system is the inter-domain issue and demands from designers well familiarity with such areas as networking techniques, network management, network security and applications. Additionally, the military systems should satisfy the requirements corresponding the mobility, robustness, security and fast deploying. Taking the above expectations, a variety of different issues should be considered and this lead to co-operation of many teams working on specific topics, as mentioned. (...)