The necessity for information exchange between communicating nodes has dramatically increased for both unpremeditated and tactical mission operations (Rupar et al., 2020). Data transfer, or information exchange, has always remained dependent on three essential entities: the source, the destination, and a channel to serve as the carrier of information. Compared to a guided channel, an unguided channel—commonly known as a wireless channel—further suffers from different issues, including multipath fading, freespace path loss, interference, etc. (He et al., 2021). Irrespective of the underlying channel (i.e., guided or unguided), civil communication has always been the victim of legacy challenges, such as spectrum scarcity, congestion, and the associated delays as well as security. However, tactical mission-oriented military communication includes several additional challenges of its own, ranging from electronic warfare (EW), command and control warfare (C2W), beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) communication, etc. Further, military communication certainly has a diversity of challenges based on the nature of its forces, i.e., ground, water, and air (Fig. 1).
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