Mobile communications system simulator development using structured analysis

Author

Tanskanen, Jarno M A ; Rintamäki, Matti J.

Author_Institution

Signal Process. Lab., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Finland

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2547

Abstract

In this paper, structured analysis (SA) is employed in mobile communications system simulation software development. Programming via SA provides a well-defined and easily maintainable structure for the software in a graphical form, also revealing any hidden dependencies in the software. Thus, the resulting simulator is more reliable and maintainable over its whole lifecycle. With modern SA tools, documentation can be automatically updated. Also, a mobile communications network simulator "Netsim", developed at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) since 1994, is described in the paper

Keywords

digital simulation; graphical user interfaces; mobile communication; software maintenance; software reliability; structured programming; telecommunication computing; HUT; Helsinki University of Technology; Netsim; automatic update; maintainability; mobile communications system simulator development; reliability; simulation software development; structured analysis; well-defined easily maintainable structure; Analytical models; Context modeling; Documentation; Laboratories; Mathematical model; Mobile communication; Modems; Signal analysis; Signal processing; Software maintenance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall. IEEE VTS 54th

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7005-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTC.2001.957210

Filename

957210