A military communications operational environment model

Performance assessment of military wireless network designs should ideally be evaluated by replicating the conditions in which these systems will operate. For airborne networks, where network platforms are fast movers operating under noisy and unstable links environments, the representation of these environments becomes essential for network simulation modeling. However, not all simulations developed for the purpose of modeling some aspect of military wireless networks include the capacity to model operational conditions. In this paper, we propose a solution to this problem by a characterization of network links based on realistic operational scenarios in such a way that the characterization is accessible to network simulations that otherwise lack the capacity to model the operational environment. This paper describes the process and sample results. We also provide an example application of our product. We believe this product can be widely applicable to many network design performance and testing evaluations and that our solution will lead us to evaluate network designs more accurately.