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Anglova Scenario

Anglova Scenario

The Anglova Scenario has been developed as part of the NATO IST-124 Research Task Group on Heterogeneous Networks: Improving Connectivity and Network Efficiency. This is an emulation scenario specifically developed for experimentation over emulated tactical networking environments.

See Documentation and FAQ for detailed description and help. You can look at Recent Changes to see what is new.

The scenario is developed for the EMANE Network Emulation environment and consists of three vignettes:

Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
Troop Deployment
Neutralization of Insurgents and IEDs and Medical Evacuation

At the moment, the troop deployment vignette (2) is the first one available for download and consists of detailed movement and pathloss parameters for a battalion-sized deployment.

Virtual machines containing EMANE and scenario can be found from virtual machines archive.

Software for Middleware test harness is available for download too.

Vignette 2: Troop Deployment

Clicking on the following links allows you to download the movement data as and the calculated pathloss data for both a 50MHz (narrowband) waveform as well as for a 300 MHz (wideband) waveform.

Java-based applications that read the above position and pathloss data and generate events that drive an EMANE simulation can be downloaded here:

The first one is a text application whereas the second one has a Graphical User Interface.

Node descriptions and typical push-to-talk voice group requirement for the battalion is given in this table. Furthermore, two examples of network plans for voice and data on UHF and VHF can be found here in Network Plan1 and Network Plan2.

Vignette 2 animation

Animation below shows the movements of the mechanized battalion part of Vignette 2.

Company 1-4 are regular companies.

The nodes 99-103 is a part of the command unit, dedicated to communication support and therefore regrouping a number of times during the scenario.

See also Vignette 2 connectivity animation.

Map data

Map data can be accessed using following instructions.

Publications

For more details, please see the following papers published at the IEEE ICMCIS 2016, 2018 and 2019 Conferences. Clicking on the papers below will take you to the paper in the IEEE Digital Library. These are also the most recent papers about this scenario, so if you happen to use the scenario, please cite the following papers.

Suri, N., Hansson, A., Nilsson, J., Lubkowski, P., Marcus, K., Hauge, M., Lee, K., Buchin, B., Misirlioglu, L., and Peuhkuri, M. A Realistic Military Scenario and Emulation Environment for Experimenting with Tactical Communications and Heterogeneous Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS 2016), Brussels, Belgium, May 23rd-24th, 2016.

Suri, N., Nilsson, J., Hansson, A., Sterner, U., Marcus, K., Misirlioğlu, L., Hauge, M., Peuhkuri, M., Buchin, B., Velt, R. in 't , Breedy, M.. "The angloval tactical military scenario and experimentation environment." 2018 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS). IEEE, 2018.

N. Suri, K. M. Marcus, C. v. d. Broek, H. Bastiaansen, P. Lubkowski, and M. Hauge. "Extending the Anglova Scenario for Urban Operations." 2019 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS). Budva, Montenegro, 2019.