Information flow model for military mobile communication systems

Some military mobile communication systems are similar in operational concept to the commercial Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS). To aid in the design of such a system, a modeling technique is described for application to tactical mobile telephone systems permitting subscriber access on a trunked basis to any of several central stations over a 50 × 100-km area. The model is a design tool in achieving performance and cost objectives, thus avoiding potential overdesign. The methodology, consisting of seven steps, is presented and applied to the derivation of an optimal system configuration.