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<p>The U.S. Army Nett Warrior System is a type of Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) designed to enhance situational  awareness and communications within a U.S. Army Brigade Combat Team. It depends on reliable wireless  communication provided by Enhanced Position Location Reporting System (EPLRS) Radio Sets. This study  investigates the appropriate basis of issue for the fielding of these systems by examining how varying the number of  fielded radios affects the system's ability to support Army communications requirements. In this thesis, we model  network operations in three ways to evaluate the effects of varying the number of radios. The first model provides an  idealized representation of network performance by calculating total throughput in the best case. The second model  estimates the percentage of potential links that can be established simultaneously using a greedy heuristic and in a  manner consistent with EPLRS design. The final model examines the ability of the network to support the distribution  of situational awareness information using discrete event simulation to evaluate the percentage of successful  transmissions for networks of varying radio densities. We exercise these models under various deployment scenarios  and make recommendations regarding the fielding of these systems.
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<br>Subjects: Operations research</div>
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Fry, W. Jacob.</div>
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