Military applications requiring communications and networking are plentiful, and these operations are conducted in challenging environments. Challenges stem from many places, such as by constraints imposed by the presence of active adversaries, limitations resulting from operations with resource-limited assets, and urgency brought forth from strict mission requirements. In this rich area of communications and networks research and engineering, many solutions have been proposed, leveraging concepts and capabilities including the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud based analytics and blockchain.

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系列社论：军事通讯和网络

需要通信和联网的军事应用非常丰富，并且这些操作是在具有挑战性的环境中进行的。挑战来自许多地方，例如，由于活跃对手的存在所施加的限制，资源有限的资产的运营所带来的限制以及严格的任务要求所带来的紧迫性。在通信和网络研究与工程这个丰富的领域中，已经提出了许多解决方案，它们利用了概念和功能，包括物联网（IoT），基于云的分析和区块链。