Abstract The network technology employed in today's military tactical environment is largely based on commercial network technologies. These commercial technologies are designed to operate in a stable environment. However, many military situations arise that demand highly mobile networks. Communications on the move, continuity of operations when a critical node goes down, and instant communcations in areas lacking a communications infrastructure are just a few examples of situations requiring...

Abstract Wireless communication testing occurs at baseband, intermediate, and radio frequencies. Chipsets that reside in base stations and mobile stations typically utilize baseband frequencies for signal processing of call set-ups and provided dedicated channels such as pilot, paging, synchronization, traffic, and data. These signals must be converted to radio frequency before they are transmitted to the wireless channel and received by the mobile station (forward link) or the base station...