학술논문

A computer simulator of a tactical communication system
Document Type
Conference
Source
IEEE Military Communications Conference. Proceedings. MILCOM 98 (Cat. No.98CH36201) Military communications: MILCOM 98 Military Communications Conference, 1998. MILCOM 98. Proceedings., IEEE. 3:893-897 vol.3 1998
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Aerospace
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computational modeling
Computer simulation
Circuit simulation
Computer vision
Fires
Jamming
Digital systems
Wire
Network topology
Time measurement
Language
Abstract
A computer simulator of a tactical communication system is presented. The simulated system is a circuit-switched digital system with nodes connected by line-of-sight (LOS) links or by wire links. The node of the system is moveable. It means, that during the simulation process, they can move according to the trajectory given by the user. It is possible, that the network resources can decrease because of enemy artillery fire or electronic jamming. The goal of simulation is the estimation of the following measures: network service accessibility, network service utilization rate of the network resources (links, nodes), and survivability. The presented simulator can carry out simulation experiments according to three scenarios: simulation of a stationary network (without any movement and enemy activity), simulation of a network with movement of fixed nodes, and simulation with nodes movement and enemy fire and jamming attack. For the first event, the limited characteristics for constant network topology and stationary load (stationary measures) are estimated. For the next two events, transient measures for a fixed time after the beginning of the system activity are estimated. The main modules of the simulator, features of simulated system, estimated performance measures and the method of their estimation for different simulation scenarios are also presented.