Specifications

Appendix 5

Radio System Test Plan

AAC Wireless Telemetry Project

Task Order 1

1. Introduction and background

This test plan document outlines the procedures for acceptance and performance testing of the

Redline Communications AN50 radio system being used provide point-to-multipoint wireless

telemetry under AAC Task Order #1 by Montana State University (MSU).

MSU will test the Redline AN50 system in point-to-point (P2P) and point-to-multi-point (PMP)

configurations to establish whether the radio system can meet performance requirements (e.g.,

range, throughput) for wireless telemetry applications associated with high-speed sensor data

applications. Figure 1 show the radio configuration under consideration.

Base station

and data

acquisition

Test

equipment

Figure 1. Radio configuration for Wireless Telemetry

The system under test consists of either one AN50 base station (BS) and one subscriber station

(SS) (P2P mode) or one BS and three SSs (PMP mode). Each SS can be configured as an

independent unsynchronized quasi-uniform data source emulating an acoustic sensor

autonomously collecting data and relaying it to a central processing point which is emulated by

the BS. The objective is to obtain an overall system throughput of greater than 50 Mb/s

(aggregate of all SSs) and a range (distance between BS and furthest SS) of up to 30 miles. In the

PMP mode the overall capacity of the system can be dynamically distributed among the SSs to

support variable data rates as might be required by an event-driven data acquisition mode of

operation.

Subscriber

stations with

traffic

generators

2. Lab Test bed