High Frequency (HF) Upgrade Study for the Canadian Regional Operations Control Center (ROCC) AWACS Digital Information Link (RADIL) Project.

• Main Author: Wickwire, Kenneth
• Other Authors: MITRE CORP BEDFORD MA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Radio Communications; *HIGH FREQUENCY; *CANADA; *RADIO LINKS; *DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS; *GROUND STATIONS; *RADIO STATIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; PROPAGATION; DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; NOVA SCOTIA; RADIO EQUIPMENT; NORWAY; MODEMS; DATA LINKS; TACTICAL DATA SYSTEMS; ICELAND; ALBERTA; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; AIRBORNE WARNING AND CONTROL SYSTEM; ROCC(REGIONAL OPERATIONS CONTROL CENTER); RADIL(ROCC AWACS DIGITAL INFORMATION LINK); AWACS(AIRBORNE WARNING AND CONTROL SYSTEM); TADIL(TACTICAL DIGITAL INFORMATION LINK); Canada; Mitre; Norway; The Mitre; Iceland
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA293435; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA293435

The Regional Operations Control Center AWACS Digital Information Link/Rapidly Deployable Integrated Command and Control System (RADIL/RADIC) System Program Office, Canadian RADIL Progam, has acquired high-frequency (HF) radio equipment for two Canadian ground stations under the RADIL Project. This equipment will allow those stations to carry out Tactical Digital Information Link (TADIL) A data transmissions assisted by MIL-STD-188-141A automatic link establishment (ALE). The MITRE Corporation has been tasked to study whether U.S. TADIL stations should be equipped with similar HF-ALE modems. This report analyzes the improvements in performance over northern links that can be expected from the addition of ALE to the TADIL A system. Since there is only a small amount of data on ALE-assisted digital communications in northern regions, the analysis combines a probabilistic approach to comparison of ALE and conventional linking techniques with actual HF propagation data from links in Canada, Iceland, and Norway. The report also assesses the risks to effective communications of using an ALE-TADIL A system in the north and recommends several improvements in hardware and software that can lower those risks.