Patent ID: 8743708

Claim:
A method of reconfiguring communication transmission characteristics in response to a changing communication environment, the method comprising: receiving a communication signal from a first communication device at a second communication device, the communication signal being processed based on a first SIS/MAC transmission pair, wherein the first SIS/MAC transmission pair having a SIS parameter associated with processing of the communication signal by a physical layer implemented at the second communication device and a MAC parameter associated with processing of the communication signal at a network interface layer implemented at the second communication device, wherein the first SIS/MAC pair is selected using a world model, the world model including world model data for a local environment, the world model data including a source emitter schedule, the source emitter schedule including predictive information on source emitter operation, the predictive information including peace time and war time operational profiles; sensing a local environment at the second communication device to obtain environment characterization data, the environment characterization data including a location; identifying if there is a need to change the first SIS/MAC pair; if a need is identified, selecting a second transmission SIS/MAC pair different from the first SIS/MAC pair based on the environment characterization data, wherein the selecting uses a solution space including a channel selection dimension, a latitude dimension, a longitude dimension, an altitude dimension and a time dimension, the time dimension being used to select frequency and modulation schemes based upon the source emitter schedule; and sending a request to the first communication device from the second communication device, wherein the request includes an indication of the selected second SIS/MAC pair.