Accession Number:
ADA089721
Title:
Wartime Reconfiguration of the Public Telephone Network.
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. 23 Apr 79-11 Apr 80,
Corporate Author:
BDM CORP MCLEAN VA
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1980-04-11
Pagination or Media Count:
82.0
Abstract:
This document presents the results of a preliminary investigation of the feasibility of adaptive reconfiguration as a means of using the surviving portions of the public telephone network in wartime. the effort assessed potential enhancement to survivable communications, perhaps in a nuclear degraded environment, by utilizing a wartime switching router. The major outputs of this effort are a system description, a set of critical Federal users, routing algorithms, a bibliography, and conclusions concerning overall feasibility. Author
Descriptors:
- *MILITARY OPERATIONS
- *SURVIVAL(GENERAL)
- *COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
- *TELEPHONE SYSTEMS
- ALGORITHMS
- NUCLEAR WARFARE
- DIGITAL SYSTEMS
- CRISIS MANAGEMENT
- EMERGENCIES
- CONVENTIONAL WARFARE
- COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
- ROUTING
- FLOW CHARTING
- PUBLIC UTILITIES
- DEFENSE PLANNING
- NUCLEAR EXPLOSION DAMAGE
- COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
- ELECTRONIC SWITCHING
- SWITCHBOARDS
Subject Categories:
- Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics
- Command, Control and Communications Systems