Data Link Protocol

I worked as a free lance consultant for three years before I got the first contract. During this period, I worked for customers who were smart and demanding. As a consultant-you are the subject matter expert and you must have answers to questions in real time. Sometimes, the questions asked were bordering on my field of data link protocol.

Radar integration, communication bandwidth requirements, threat evaluation and weapons assignment of a particular engagement envelope for a weapons system were of paramount importance to the customer.

To be a consultant at RDEC you must be equipped with the right tools at the right time. I worked very closely with distinguished scientists who were brilliant Mathematician and radar experts. I have worked with several Scientists at RDEC who are exceptionally smart and are experts in weapon system analysis. They were dynamic and always asking the right questions at the wrong time of the day(around 4:00 pm). As an example: What does it take to resurrect a message if you loose one byte of data? What is the most effective modulation scheme to implement a protocol to minimize message rate loss? What type of coding scheme to optimize the message transmission rate? There are unending notes of his queries-to me, I was honored to be his associate in problem solving.

I recognized that the spectrum ranged from radar applications to data link traffic analysis. Trade off analysis of several techniques on how to perform threat evaluation and weapons assignment. Therefore, in view of these challenges, I assembled several academic tools to use them as the need arose to respond to the Scientists of the RDEC Laboratory. Regretfully, my tool box was documented in a green book but it was lost during our moves of the office of three locations in one year. Then, I had to resurrect these tools via the Internet.

I used these tools and was very successful in providing the right solution to the customer's problem. The work that I did as consultant lead to the first contract that I got as a small business launching COLSA as a business entity. I have not noted the application to each of the attachment asI just want to share these tools with you, hoping that they have some value to you in your daily routine of system analysis of radar and weapons systems applications.