Modeling and performance analysis of an integrated digital communications network in a military environment

An internet environment which offers an integrated communications service will be emerging in the future, and part of it exists now. The author presents a methodology for modeling and performance analysis and addresses the simulation and performance evaluation of the proposed digital communications network from the user´s perspective. The network case study for integration and analysis spans the Pacific Ocean, providing geographic connectivity as illustrated. The study describes the development of the model, gives a network system description, and discusses and analyzes the results of some of the simulation experiments. It is shown that a commercially available software package was usefully employed to model and simulate an integrated multimedia command and control communications network