A system for the expert analysis of tactical networks’ performances

The simulation of tactical networks is an important task in the process of military missions planning. Such methodologies assure a higher probability of success for tactically critical operations on military fields. The manual analysis of simulation results is a very time-consuming task and requires expert knowledge to correctly interpret these results. This paper briefly defines those concepts of an expert system also used in the design of our system for automatic expert analysis regarding those simulations results obtained by an OPNET modeler. It presents some analyses algorithms which we have developed for tactical network evaluation. The more important parameters that evaluate tactical networks are: transmitter bandwidth utilization, traffic delays, message completion rates and radio visibility. The functionalities and implementation of a developed expert system are also described in the context of the whole system for simulating tactical networks.