Modeling and simulation of the ZODIAC tactical communication system
conference paper
This paper gives a description of the development of a simulation model of the ZOne Dlgital Automatic Cryptographic (ZODIAC) tactical communication system of the Royal Netherlands Army (RNLA). Also, examples of simulation results and some lessons learned will be presented. The ZODIAC tactical communication system of the Dutch Army consists of access equipment and mobile switches. The switches are typically interconnected via line of sight radio links. A deployment of a ZODIAC network has, like all communication systems, a finite capacity to handle traffic. The ZODSIM simulation model was developed to study properties of deployments and the impact of new equipment and services on the capacity and to predict bottle necks. The introduction presents a brief description of ZODIAC, features implemented in ZODSIM, the OPNET simulation environment used to develop the model, and some modeling techniques. In the section thereafter, some examples of simulations of deployments of ZODIAC and obtained results will be presented, followed by a discussion and some lessons learned.
TNO Identifier
95235
Publisher
NATO-RTO
Source title
Papers presented at the RTO Information Systems Technology (IST) Symposium on "Tactical Mobile Communications" held in Lillehammer, Norway, 14-16 June 1999
Place of publication
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Pages
14/1-14/14
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