SatCom & Wireless Planning for a Complex World
Keith Barker, President, Questiny Group Inc.
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO
MILSATCOM PLANNING
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MOBILITY IS A GAME CHANGER
Modern military communications planning is a complex set of constraints, choices and trades
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BASELINE TECHNOLOGY
• Single-system Tools• MPM (MUOS Performance Model) for MUOS• CNPS (Common Network Planning System) for WGS
• High-level Tools• JNMS (Joint Network Management) with SPEED (System for
Planning, Engineering, and Evaluation Device)• GEMSIS (Global Electromagnetic Spectrum Information System)
• Commercial Link Budget Tools• SatMaster Pro™, LSATV, EDX, Spreadsheets
• General Tools• STK, OPNET, QualNet, etc
Many Tools address pieces of the communications puzzle
Geometry and Networking
Single-channel RF links
Single System RF Links
Spectrum Management
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SATCOM PLANNING CHALLENGES
• Interaction between systems on shared or adjacent frequencies
• Dynamic resource utilization and management• Complex spectrum management• Complex transition management• System capabilities, capacity in benign and contested
scenarios• Timely planning response for lower echelons• Tedious specification input for simulation
models/systemsMany simulation/modeling systems share these same challenges.
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SOLUTION: WIRELESS NETWORK SIMULATOR (WiNS)
• Specifically designed for mobile tactical networks
• Designed around military operations – not radio engineering
• Intelligent defaults provide rapid multi-design simulation in far less time
• Models interference, complex RF, and spectral interactions
• Designed for optimizing cross-system planning
• Simulates RF Networks in Space, Time, and Frequency
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WINS CAPABILITIES
• Rapidly models terminal mobility, traffic dynamics, orientation, resource assignments, and more
• Multiple views of system performance
• Simultaneous simulation of multiple, different systems
• Mask complexity with easy-to-use interface
• Simulates RF systems in the spectral domain
• Evolutionary modeling; start simple, then add details
WiNS addresses space, time and spectrum
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ORGANIZATIONS NEEDING INTEGRATED PLANNING TOOL• Program Offices
• Program Office for performance studies
• Tactical Units• Recon Battalions, Forward TOCs
• Combatant Commands• PACOM, CENTCOM, EURCOM, etc.
• Strategic Organizations• USARSTRAT for NB UHF Planning• DISA for Mix of Media Studies related to UHF and Narrowband
CommsCommunications planning challenges cross organizational
boundaries and echelons
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WINS UNDERLYING CAPABILITY
• WiNS calculates multiple power spectral densities• N-port, linear PSD calculations
• Calculates link quality, interference spectrum, and cross-link effects (mutual interference)
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ACCURATE LOCAL PROPAGATION
Detailed terrain and land-cover used for RF channel performance
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WINS INTEGRATES MULTIPLE MISSION VIEWS
Complexity hidden – users interact with WinS in their terms
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TACTICAL MISSION SUPPORT
WiNS GUI supports tactical level planning
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STRATEGIC MISSION SUPPORT
WiNS GUI supports strategic level planning
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RESOURCE DEMAND
WiNS GUI supports resource demand estimation
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TRANSITION TO OPS
• WiNS supports transition planning between systems• Optimize design, design attributes, performance, and
capacity
• Tactical Operations Planning
• System engineering and trade studies
• Spectrum management and coordination
• Terminal-satellite program synchronization
• Resource allocation policy definition
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CUSTOMERS & POTENTIAL CLIENTS
• Current Customers:• US ARSTRAT – MUOS Planning Office
• DISA – Mix of Media Study
• FCI – Subcontractor to DISA
• Potential Clients:• Strategic and tactical communications planning; STRATCOM, ARSTRAT,
DISA, USMC, SPAWAR, First Responders
• Regulatory organizations examining cross-system, and multi-spectral interference: FCC, JSC, NTIA, JROC, etc.
• Organizations with questions regarding wireless communications performance and design: Prime contractors, Program Offices and PEOs
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WINS DEVELOPED UNDER A NAVY SBIR TOPIC
NEED & CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTNeed: USSTRATCOM requirement for improved communications analysis and planning capabilities for both the SATCOM and other transport systems.
Value to the Warfighter: Improved battlefield communications
Operational Gap: Current SATCOM Planners do not address interactions between dissimilar wireless systems. As such, they are vulnerable to unanticipated interference.
Technology Description: WiNS simplifies the planning of complex military communications scenarios that use both military and commercial communication systems through modeling combinations of terrestrial, satellite and hybrid wireless networks.
SBIR TOPIC: N07-195 Land Mobile Satellite Communications Improved Mathematical and Simulation Methods for Stressed Environments
SPONSORSHIP: SPAWAR System Center – Pacific
TRANSITION TARGET: PEO-Space and USARSTRAT
CONTRACT: Open contract N66001-09-C-0093 ending 4/21/2013
TPOC: Austin Mroczek (619) 221-7749, [email protected]
GOVERNMENT FUNDING
Phase Objective Funding CumulativePhase 1 Feasibility $75,000 $75,000P1 Option PII Planning $25,000 $100,000Phase 2 Prototype $750,000 $850,000Phase 2.5 Working Prototype $750,000 $1,600,000
FUTURE WiNS OPPORTUNTIES (PHASE III)
MILSATCOM Planning & SimulationMILSATCOM Network ManagementMILSATCOM Strategic Planning
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WINS MEETS YOUR NEEDS
WiNS meets the needs for planning and assessing modern mobile military communications
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POINT OF CONTACT• Questiny Group, Inc.
Transforming information into understanding• Keith Barker : PH: 650.592.5201
www.questinygroup.com