Test & Assurance for Government, Defense and Aerospace

Whether you are designing battlefield radio hardware or software, building a military IoT device with an RF module, buying or evaluating devices, or developing network applications that use radios, you are probably grappling with the real-world challenges of successfully getting RF signals from point A to point B.

Advances inspired by 5G are making their way into the design and testing of military communications systems.

Mesh radios are typically used in mission critical communications and therefore it is imperative to secure a superior quality of service. Field testing is not always the best approach for several reasons, such as lack of repeatability, expense, scheduling, and the difficulty in creating extreme test conditions. Lab testing can compensate for this, but due to unique behavior, standard channel models are not sufficient to replicate the highly dynamic characteristics of mesh networks. For example, Doppler modeling and the impacts of bandwidth need to be revisited. Also, a test system must have very high capacity to support full mesh structures due to all the connected nodes in the network.