Title :
Systems engineering of communication protocols for command and control systems
Author :
Thuente, David J. ; Whiteman, John K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents an overview of the ten-year ongoing systems engineering effort for the communication system design of the preeminent command and control fire support system used by the United States Army and Marines today. The system is known as the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS). The primary focus of this paper is the design of the communication system and the protocols that were developed to meet the requirements of time critical messages. The protocol designed for AFATDS has subsequently become a major component in MIL-STD-188-220B. Simulation results for critical design decisions are presented. General bandwidth utilization, throughput, and message latency were the primary concerns early in the systems engineering study. The performance for the most time critical messages, Check Fires, was subsequently studied and solved. Additional systems engineering work to enhance the protocols to further improve the performance for Check Fire messages are discussed
Keywords :
command and control systems; message passing; military communication; protocols; systems engineering; AFATDS; Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System; Check Fire; bandwidth utilization; command and control systems; communication protocols; message latency; systems engineering; Bandwidth; Command and control systems; Data systems; Delay; Design engineering; Fires; Modeling; Protocols; Systems engineering and theory; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
High Assurance Systems Engineering, 2001. Sixth IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Boco Raton, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1275-5
DOI :
10.1109/HASE.2001.966820
