NEDAT- a toolset to design and analyze future force networks

The Department of Defense has developed the over-arching concept of Net-Centric Warfare (NCW) to incorporate the technological advancements of the information age into the U.S. military. Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are a vital component to realizing the NCW concept. To ensure the success of the NCW concept, there is a critical need for systematic techniques based on formal approaches to designing and predicting performance of MANETs. This paper presents a Network Engineering Design Analytic Toolset (NEDAT) that applies network science based approaches to the design and analysis of NCW-like networks. It is the result of a joint project between CERDEC and Telcordia Technologies.

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