A Novel Voice Signaling Protocol for Tactical Broadcast Voice Communication in Mobile Ad Hoc Network

Push-to-Talk (PTT) based broadcast voice communication is an essential requirement for tactical military radio communication. The uncoordinated and uncontrolled way of PTT based voice communication faces lots of signaling issues in MANET scenario. In this paper; a novel method of signaling for broadcast voice is proposed for multi-hop broadcast voice communication in tactical Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) with Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) as underlying MAC scheme. The proposed voice signaling protocol has been implemented and validated in real tactical environment.