CU-Boulder Timothy X Brown Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Colorado Presented to L3 Comcept at the University of Colorado December 17, 2003 Wireless Communications Test Bed: Test Plan
12/17/2003T.X Brown ( Overview Test Bed Site Scenarios Performance Metrics Status
12/17/2003T.X Brown ( Test Bed Site Table Mountain National Radio Quiet Zone 9 miles North of the University of Colorado
12/17/2003T.X Brown ( FS1 FS2 1000’ 300m Test Bed Site Public Road Circuit at Mesa Base Test Bed Gateway Potential Landing Strip Fixed Sites
12/17/2003T.X Brown ( Scenarios NOC Scenario 1Scenario 2 Test Configurations Ground—Ground Ground—Mobile—Ground Ground—UAV—Ground Test Configurations UAV—UAV Ground—UAV—UAV
12/17/2003T.X Brown ( Ground Support Scenarios Grnd-Grnd Grnd-Mobile-Grnd Grnd-UAV-Grnd FS1 FS2 1000’ 300m
12/17/2003T.X Brown ( UAV Scenarios Grnd-UAV UAV-UAV Grnd-UAV-UAV FS1 FS2 1000’ 300m
12/17/2003T.X Brown ( Performance Metrics Measures of Performance & Effectiveness Data Throughput Latency Packet Loss, Radio Packet Loss, Congestion Jitter Communication Availability Hardware Reliability Network Self-forming & Node-failure Recovery Time Mobility Impact Ease of Deployment/Transportability Remote Connectivity Range Data, Voice, Video, Web Page Communication
12/17/2003T.X Brown ( Status Accomplishments Plan for experiments complete Signed agreement for use of test bed site Surveyed site To Do Translate experiment plan to hardware capabilities UAV landing site, Fixed Site site prep. Issues Distant UAV operations area for long-range communication operations