Experimental performance evaluation of the narrowband VHF tactical IP radio in a real environment

Author

Golan, E. ; Krasniewski, Adam ; Romanik, Janusz ; Skarzynski, Pawel ; Urban, Robert

Author_Institution

Radiocommun. Dept., Mil. Commun. Inst., Zegrze, Poland

fYear

2013

fDate

7-9 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper evaluates the efficiency of IP packets transmission in narrowband networks based on the RRC 9310AP tactical radios. BER characteristics vs. distance for a rural environment was determined and statistics of errors distribution in VHF channel were presented. We also found the thresholds of BER, when the data rate of the radio interface changes automatically according to the channel conditions. Based on measurements performed in a real environment, we examined the user throughput for selected length of UDP datagrams. We mapped the BER to the data rate of the radio interface. Finally, we found that the maximum throughput offered to the user in IP-PAS mode amounts up to 9 kbit/s. Based on these results, we assessed the efficiency of the RRC 9310AP tactical radios in the IP-mode.

Keywords

IP networks; error statistics; military communication; BER; IP packets transmission; IP-PAS mode; RRC 9310AP tactical radios; UDP datagrams; VHF channel; error distribution statistics; narrowband VHF tactical IP radio; narrowband networks; Bit error rate; IP networks; Military communication; Narrowband; Protocols; Throughput; BER characteristics; Tactical VHF communication; user throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications and Information Systems Conference (MCC), 2013

Conference_Location

St.-Malo

Print_ISBN

978-83-934848-8-1

Type

conf

Filename

6695503