Title :
Managing military mobile communications networks
Author_Institution :
Plessey Defence Systems, Christchurch, UK
Abstract :
Discusses the evolution of computer assisted management of communications networks which contain mobile nodes. The author reviews: the basic facilities provided by a typical management system; the history of the evolution through the BRUIN Management Information System via the Ptarmigan System Control Computer to the MRS Network Management Processor; the current state of management products; the current relationship with civilian systems; the near and medium term future and the influence of fourth generation languages and artificial intelligence
Keywords :
command and control systems; management information systems; military systems; mobile radio systems; telecommunication network management; telecommunication networks; BRUIN Management Information System; MRS Network Management Processor; Ptarmigan System Control Computer; artificial intelligence; civilian systems; communications networks; computer assisted management; fourth generation languages; management system; mobile nodes;
Conference_Titel :
Command, Control, Communications and Management Information Systems, 1989., Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bournemouth
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-380-7
