Measuring GOSIP´s appropriateness for the tactical user

The authors describe a proof-of-concept prototype system developed to measure communications performance and identify specific issues and problems that are likely to be encountered by tactical applications using the Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile (GOSIP). The prototype runs a tactical messaging application. Its functional topology, based on automation in command posts, and facilities at echelons corps and below, was emulated in a controlled testbed environment which provided the capability to measure the protocol performance. From analyzing the results of the experiments, the authors conclude that the use of the full GOSIP protocol stack is not incompatible with tactical messaging requirements