WiNS milsat overview

AN INTEGRATED
APPROACH TO MILSATCOM
PLANNING
SatCom & Wireless Planning for a Complex World
Keith Barker, President, Questiny Group Inc.
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MOBILITY IS A GAME CHANGER

Modern military communications planning is a complex
set of constraints, choices and trades


BASELINE TECHNOLOGY
Many Tools address pieces of the communications puzzle
• Single-system Tools Single System RF Links
• MPM (MUOS Performance Model) for MUOS
• CNPS (Common Network Planning System) for WGS
• High-level Tools Spectrum Management
• JNMS (Joint Network Management) with SPEED (System for
Planning, Engineering, and Evaluation Device)
• GEMSIS (Global Electromagnetic Spectrum Information System)
• Commercial Link Budget Tools Single-channel RF links
• SatMaster Pro™, LSATV, EDX, Spreadsheets
• General Tools Geometry and Networking
• STK, OPNET, QualNet, etc


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/systems
Many 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
Comms
Communications planning challenges cross organizational
boundaries and echelons


WINS UNDERLYING CAPABILITY
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Phase (rad)
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Power Sources

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Frequency (MHz)

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Sinks
WiNS Core
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• WiNS calculates multiple power spectral densities
• N-port, linear PSD calculations
• Calculates link quality, interference spectrum, and cross-link
effects (mutual interference)

WiNS provides flexible modeling of communications spectrum


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


SYSTEM DESIGN STUDIES

Uplink Antennas
UT1 Hub UL & DL
UT1 Channel Antennas
UT2 Hub
UT2 Channel Channel Hub
Satellite
UT3
UT3 Downlink Antennas
Channel

60
Terminal Diagram User Rx
40 User Tx
Receive Chain Hub Tx
Hub Rx
20
Tracking
Antenna RCVR Demod
Gain (dB)

0

-20

Transmit Chain
-40

Amp
Antenna Pattern
-60
Modulator
-80
-10 -8 -6 -4 -2 0 2 4 6 8 10
Angle Off-axis (deg)


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


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 REQUIREMENT SBIR TOPIC: N07-195 Land Mobile Satellite Communications
Need: USSTRATCOM requirement for improved communications Improved Mathematical and Simulation Methods for Stressed
analysis and planning capabilities for both the SATCOM and other Environments
transport systems.
SPONSORSHIP: SPAWAR System Center – Pacific
Value to the Warfighter: Improved battlefield communications
TRANSITION TARGET: PEO-Space and USARSTRAT
Operational Gap: Current SATCOM Planners do not address
interactions between dissimilar wireless systems. As such, they are CONTRACT: Open contract N66001-09-C-0093 ending 4/21/2013
vulnerable to unanticipated interference.
TPOC: Austin Mroczek (619) 221-7749, austin.mroczek@navy.mil
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.

GOVERNMENT FUNDING FUTURE WiNS OPPORTUNTIES (PHASE III)

Phase Objective Funding Cumulative MILSATCOM Planning & Simulation
Phase 1 Feasibility $75,000 $75,000 MILSATCOM Network Management
P1 Option PII Planning $25,000 $100,000 MILSATCOM Strategic Planning
Phase 2 Prototype $750,000 $850,000
Phase 2.5 Working Prototype $750,000 $1,600,000


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
keith@questinygroup.com
www.questinygroup.com

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