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

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1026

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference Proceedings, 1999. MILCOM 1999. IEEE

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5538-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1999.821358

Filename

821358