wins milsat overview

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


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


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.


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


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


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


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


WINS INTEGRATES MULTIPLE MISSION VIEWS

Complexity hidden – users interact with WinS in their terms


TACTICAL MISSION SUPPORT

WiNS GUI supports tactical level planning


STRATEGIC MISSION SUPPORT

WiNS GUI supports strategic level planning


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

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• Tactical Operations Planning

• System engineering and trade studies

• Spectrum management and coordination

• Terminal-satellite program synchronization

• Resource allocation policy definition


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


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


WINS MEETS YOUR NEEDS

WiNS meets the needs for planning and assessing modern mobile military communications


POINT OF CONTACT• Questiny Group, Inc.

Transforming information into understanding• Keith Barker : PH: 650.592.5201

[email protected]

www.questinygroup.com

mailto:[email protected]

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