{"title":"Multi-access properties of transform domain spread spectrum systems","authors":"J. D. Endsley, Richard A. Dean","doi":"10.1109/TCC.1994.472093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCC.1994.472093","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given, as follows. This paper examines the multi-access properties of transform domain spread spectrum systems for use in tactical battlefield scenarios. Transform domain spread spectrum (XDSS) systems evolved as an attractive solution for low probability of detection/interception (LPD/I) systems that operate in interference and multipath environments. However, the same properties that make XDSS systems robust to interference and multipath, when combined with multi-access features, make XDSS systems attractive for tactical battlefields as well. We illustrate the advantages of transform domain spread spectrum over more traditional direct sequence spread spectrum methods by examining three multi-access techniques: (1) orthogonally coded direct sequence (OCDS), (2) cyclic code shift keying (CCSK), and (3) XDSS. All of these systems can be either coherent or noncoherent; however, we concentrate on non-coherent M-ary waveform modulation methods. We first show that while OCDS systems mitigate multi-user interference problems when the received user waveforms are synchronized, they lose this property when any time offsets are introduced by multipath and propagation delay. In addition, OCDS systems do not naturally resolve the time shifted versions caused by multipath, so RAKE processing for the M-ary signal set can be expensive. On the other hand, a CCSK system can readily use fast convolution methods to naturally resolve circularly delayed versions of the signal. Provided the processing gain is sufficiently large, a CCSK system can easily implement a RAKE combiner. The CCSK system, however, only provides isolation from other users by taking advantage of the low cross correlation properties of the spreading code. This make CCSK systems subject to near/far interference problems. By showing that XDSS systems have orthogonal CCSK signal sets, we illustrate how XDSS systems can provide robust, multi-access communications in tactical battlefield scenarios where ECCM and LPD/I properties are important.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":206310,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of TCC'94 - Tactical Communications Conference","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130322463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of national ISDN on commercial and tactical communications","authors":"J. Ramsey","doi":"10.1109/TCC.1994.472117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCC.1994.472117","url":null,"abstract":"The objectives of a national integrated services digital network (NISDN) are shared by both government and industry. Industry has adopted a set of specifications developed by Bellcore, known as NISDN-1 to allow ISDN services and features to operate transparently among switches of different models or manufacturers. ISDN provides multiple services such as voice, data, video, and graphics, on demand, on the existing telephone wiring we use today. With the recent launch of NISDN-1, the local exchange networks collectively have 22 NISDN-1 switches in the United States and Canada equipped with Common Channel Signaling System 7 (CCSS7) and 64 kb/s clear channel capability. Each switch is connected to at least one interexchange carrier network for voice and circuit switched data, and at least one interexchange carrier for packet data. Tactical users must have an information system that is flexible, mobile, secure and often rugged. It must provide timely, accurate information. NISDN is currently addressing these requirements in the commercial market place. As the industry direction of NISDN develops, it should be recognized that the public switched telephone network (PSTN) is evolving from a circuit switched fixed bandwidth toward a packet switched network with flexible bandwidth. As its various network components (including NISDN) transition to an end-to-end digital network, users and service providers will be increasingly able to access, develop, and offer new types of services and applications that will benefit both commercial and government communications.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":206310,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of TCC'94 - Tactical Communications Conference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131669116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A multivariate rank sum test for network simulation validation","authors":"A. Brodeen, M. S. Taylor","doi":"10.1109/TCC.1994.472085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCC.1994.472085","url":null,"abstract":"A primary goal of any verification and validation process should be to enhance both the correctness of a simulation and the confidence placed in its results. One challenge is to develop a process that is at the same time feasible and compatible with an organization's needs, and can be applied to both existing simulations as well as new ones. Multivariate methods can be used to test the hypothesis of agreement between simulated predictions and empirical observations. This paper describes a statistical test useful for the validation of simulations of battlefield communications networks. The method employs a multivariate nonparametric rank sum test with the aid of a computer-intensive randomization procedure to assess the significance of the defined test statistic. For illustrative purposes, the validation procedure is applied to a simulation that was developed to duplicate a configuration tested, in which \"messages\" were passed over a communications network using the combination of the Tactical Fire Direction System (TACFIRE) protocol and Single-Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS) Combat Net Radios (CNR). The purpose of this research is to strengthen the link between experimentation and simulation, both of which should be utilized in evaluating communications systems' measures of performance (MOP).<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":206310,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of TCC'94 - Tactical Communications Conference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114968564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Security architecture for tactical/strategic interoperability","authors":"M.E. Dark, R. A. Dean","doi":"10.1109/TCC.1994.472126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCC.1994.472126","url":null,"abstract":"The technology and market forces have influenced the way we view the world of tactical and strategic communications. Our view of secure communications has always seen the strategic world as unique from the mobile platforms of the tactical world. Interoperability of such systems has always been a goal but has never become a reality. This has changed as a result of the Gulf War. In the Gulf War operation, the demand far an interoperable mix of tactical and strategic resources revealed significant weaknesses. Today, with such concepts as Global Grid and Command Control Communications Computers and Intelligence for the Warrior (C4IFIW), it has grown into a requirement where anyone, any place, at any time can talk to anybody. This expanded view of interoperability coupled with the fact that new communication products are introduced every twelve to eighteen months has forced us to look at providing security for the diverse products and networks in a new way. This paper describes a high level architectural methodology for developing future tactical to strategic interoperability while addressing security concerns.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":206310,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of TCC'94 - Tactical Communications Conference","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124389925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Throughput of a FHMA system for variable rate coding and interference estimates","authors":"B. Woerner, A.I. Wardhana","doi":"10.1109/TCC.1994.472130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCC.1994.472130","url":null,"abstract":"Frequency hopped multiple access (FHMA) systems are sed to provide a secure link in military communication systems. The author considers a decentralized FHMA packet communication system in which a collection transmitter-receiver pairs share a common channel. One criterion to measure the performance of a FHMA system effectively is the average normalized throughput. The optimum average normalized throughput of the system is a function of both the number of users simultaneously supported and the information rate of each user. This information rate is determined by the error correction code employed in the system. Intuitively, as the number of users increases the throughput will increase; however, the multi-user interference will require additional error protection, thereby lowering the information rate. For a given number of simultaneous users, there is an optimum code rate which maximizes throughput. The authors investigate the average normalized throughput performance of a FHMA system for several cases. There are two extreme cases: The case in which number of users in the system is unknown, but the probability is modeled as a random distribution, and the case in which the number of users is exactly known. The more interesting and practical case is the situation in which imperfect estimates of the number of active users are available. These estimates could be generated by monitoring a few frequency slots at any given time. The authors investigate the performance of the FHMA and the choice of optimal code rate for a variety this case. Reed-Solomon codes are considered.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":206310,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of TCC'94 - Tactical Communications Conference","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127131554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HF to wireline modem conversion","authors":"J. Batzer, J. Bertrand, C. Haight","doi":"10.1109/TCC.1994.472101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCC.1994.472101","url":null,"abstract":"The advent of personal communication systems (PCS) will provide global connectivity over commercial communication networks. Small, inexpensive, low-power terminals that are becoming available support this connectivity, provided that the user is reasonably close to a base station. Similar efforts are underway to provide extended connectivity to military users. The problems here are somewhat different because the communications often need to be end-to-end secure and because there often is no fixed infrastructure (base stations). The paper describes the design of an HF to wireline modem converter that plays the role of a radio-wireline interface (RWI). The RWI acts as a gateway between tactical communications equipment (for example, MINTERM) and strategic (STU III).<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":206310,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of TCC'94 - Tactical Communications Conference","volume":"216 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132310784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-speed frequency synthesizer for spread spectrum communication systems","authors":"W. A. Chren","doi":"10.1109/TCC.1994.472122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCC.1994.472122","url":null,"abstract":"A high-speed direct digital frequency synthesizer has been designed for ultra-fast frequency-hopped spread spectrum applications. It is called the low-latency residue synthesizer (LLRS) and exhibits frequency switching times which are reduced by more than 50% below previously published designs. The switching speed advantage is made possible by the use of the residue number system and one-hot encoding of phase information. Pipeline lengths in the phase accumulator and other circuitry are thereby reduced significantly.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":206310,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of TCC'94 - Tactical Communications Conference","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132063352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wideband RF downconverters for digital telemetry receivers","authors":"D. Bancroft","doi":"10.1109/TCC.1994.472124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCC.1994.472124","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given, as follows. The development of extremely high sampling rate, high dynamic range A/D converters has resulted in the feasibility of a mostly digital telemetry receiver. The Naval Command and Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, under Office of Navy Research funding is developing an advanced ASW receiver which implements RF channel filtering and null steering direction finding and information demodulation in a high speed digital signal processor. This paper describes the analysis conducted for the analog RF circuitry required to downconvert the multichannel VHF sonobuoy band to baseband compatible with current technology A/D components. The performance parameters critical to the system design include good spurious free performance, sharp band edge filtering and an AGC scheme which permits phase and amplitude match between antenna input channels. The paper discusses the analysis tradeoffs performed to arrive at the downconverter design, and includes a discussion of the components selected for the receiver hardware implementation as well as the component mounting and shielding techniques.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":206310,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of TCC'94 - Tactical Communications Conference","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114271155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tactical communication EMI/EMC co-site problems and solutions","authors":"M. Bahu, L. L. Taylor","doi":"10.1109/TCC.1994.472125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCC.1994.472125","url":null,"abstract":"Tactical command and control of military forces is increasingly reliant upon radio communications. Tactical radio communications are severely impacted when many radios in close proximity experience co-site interference. Co-site interference is caused by radiated and conducted interactions of equipment and may include receiver desensitization, distortion of antenna patterns, and extensive channel blockage. Effective mitigation of co-site interference requires a systematic treatment of multiple degradation mechanisms. This paper presents an examination of various co-site degradation mechanisms in a typical tactical command and control environment. This is followed by an examination of the basic mitigation techniques of multicoupling, adaptive processing, filtering, and antenna selection, as applied independently. The synergism of combining these techniques is then presented to suggest a systematic, effective co-site interference treatment.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":206310,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of TCC'94 - Tactical Communications Conference","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124849964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communications reliability of tactical wideband radio systems","authors":"K.H. Brockel, V. Procopio, W. Barnett, A. Vigants","doi":"10.1109/TCC.1994.472098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCC.1994.472098","url":null,"abstract":"Describes the efforts of the US Army's Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) in the areas of realistic communications-channel modeling, realtime simulation of on-the-move tactical communications, and a high capacity digital radio communications performance model. The paper concludes with an illustration of using the digital radio performance model to determine maximum link lengths telecomm.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":206310,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of TCC'94 - Tactical Communications Conference","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124894235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}