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| STATEMENT OF INTENT: This topic holds the greatest potential for meeting the technical needs of our warfighters supported by PEOs and Centers.
| Objective: | Investigate the feasibility of developing a PC-based automated datalink analysis tool to evaluate military radio transmissions during developmental testing.
| Description: | Datalink transmissions are currently verified by manually comparing input signals with output signals. This is time consuming and limits the amount of analysis which can be done on any given test, and allows for human error to be a factor in datalink transmission analysis. Future tests which include the Wideband Network Waveform (WNW), which is expected to be much more complex than any currently fielded waveforms, and legacy waveform tests which coordinate multiple simultaneous signal sources, will significantly tax our manual datalink analysis capabilities. Networks with large numbers of nodes will become a common feature of future “network-centric” battlefields; the technology does not exist now to fully examine these networks.
Research into automated analysis of datalink transmissions has been primarily directed towards practical TCP/IP networking technology and point-to-point (p2p) data transfer. There is no current tool for detailed analysis of the data that passes through data links and networks as it pertains to military and advanced commercial software-defined radio (SDR) transmissions.
With a properly designed automated tool, the data collected from a test can be analyzed and evaluated far more quickly and accurately than if the data must be manually analyzed. An automated system for data validation would reduce man-hours required per test point; tests will become possible which include more test points than currently feasible to evaluate.
| | PHASE I: Develop a PC software tool to automate analysis of arbitrary waveform transmissions across tactical datalinks and networks. Investigate methods for examining multiple simultaneous transmissions. Propose a network structure visualization interface and means to track degraded network performance.
| | | PHASE II: Develop and demonstrate a prototype solution demonstrating the system design and potential user interfaces proposed in Phase I. The system should be usable for an arbitrary waveform and for multiple simultaneous transmissions, and should be able to be integrated with existing range equipment. Develop and implement a dual application commercialization plan for military and civilian use.
| | DUAL USE COMMERCIALIZATION: The technology developed by this effort will be usable in commercial network development and loads testing as well as DOD defense system testing. Potential customers include broadband internet providers, cellular phone companies, and other organizations for whom quality of information transfer is important.
| References: | Joint Tactical Radio System Impact.doc, JTRS ORD JROC Approved (11Mar03).doc,
2. JTRS Program Schedule, Migration Plan v6.0, Waveform Schedule,
3. WNW FDD, 2003-06-17_ASD_NII_Spectrum, (all of these documents are available at http://jtrs.army.mil)
| | Keywords: | Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), Wideband Network Waveform (WNW), Test Tools, Automated Datalink Analysis |