In recent years, range digitization efforts have been undertaken to upgrade the strategic telecommunication infrastructure of training and testing ranges. The goal is to provide the necessary communication bandwidth and state-of-the-art technology to support the ever increasing demands in high-speed transmission of multimedia range instrumentation data in real time. Meanwhile, recent years have also witnessed a tremendous growth of research and development in wireless communications and networking. To complement the aforementioned range digitization efforts, while fully benefiting from recent technological advancements in wireless communications, there is a need to develop broadband wireless networks for seamless integration with existing "hard-wire" range communication networks. In this paper, we consider the modeling and simulation of a hybrid wireless/optical network for range communications using OPNET. The hybrid network consists of WLAN-based broadband wireless networks and a SONET-based infrastructure network. We discuss several relevant issues, such as wireless extension of a SONET network and WLAN access point node modeling. Simulation results and wireless link performance analysis (e.g., throughput and delay) are presented for the proposed hybrid network for range communications.
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