Effective Exchange of Real-Time Location Information Packets in an Integrated Voice/Data Ad-hoc Network Based on the MIL-STD-188-220C Standard

The MIL-STD-188-220C protocol, which is a standard of American Department of Defense, is designed for mobile ad-hoc networks that provide unicast and multicast routing capabilities in a military ad-hoc network environment. In this paper, we model an ad-hoc network consisting of 31 nodes hierarchically, each of which models a radio transceiver based on the MIL-STD-188-220C standard on a battle maneuver vechicle. We propose four possible scenarios to exchange the real-time location information of maneuver vehicles and evaluate the performance in the network, and determine the optimal strategy among them by OPNET simulations. Furthermore, we investigate the required values of system parameters, such as packet generation time interval and data rate to optimize the performance.