Title :
Development and application of the 188-220 protocol test tool network analyzer (PTTNA) prototype
Author :
Zbozny, Jennifer ; Keenan, John ; Menell, Ray ; Turczyn, Steven ; Lin, Chinglan
Author_Institution :
Software Eng. Center, US Army Commun. & Electron. Command, Ft. Monmouth, NJ, USA
fDate :
6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The 188-220 protocol test tool (PTT) suite was developed by the US Army CECOM Software Engineering Center. It combines software and hardware to monitor, decode, display, and analyze MIL-STD-188-220 traffic on the combat net radio (CNR) network. It operates under the Microsoft Windows NT operating system on a Pentium-class personal computer. This paper describes the entire suite of tools, but focuses on the development process, functionality, and application of the network analyzer, the suite´s most recent addition. This tool was utilized extensively throughout the force battle command brigade and below (FBCB2) setup and connectivity testing and the FBCB2 limited user test (LUT) during the summer of 1998 to test and troubleshoot CNR networks
Keywords :
microcomputer applications; military communication; military computing; military standards; network analysers; operating systems (computers); radio networks; software engineering; telecommunication equipment testing; telecommunication traffic; user interfaces; CECOM Software Engineering Center; MIL-STD-188-220 traffic analysis; Microsoft Windows NT operating system; Pentium-class personal computer; US Army; combat net radio network; connectivity testing; limited user test; protocol test tool network analyzer; setup testing; Application software; Computer displays; Computerized monitoring; Decoding; Hardware; Operating systems; Protocols; Software engineering; Software testing; Telecommunication traffic;
Conference_Titel :
Military Communications Conference Proceedings, 1999. MILCOM 1999. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Atlantic City, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5538-5
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.1999.821358
