A Measure of Effectiveness - Analysis and Application.

Abstract

A measure of effectiveness (M.O.E.) for communications is formulated, in general, and applied to a digital path assuming; no queueing; independent poisson (long and/or short) failures and exponentially distributed repairs. The M.O.E., the probability of reliable information completion within a tolerable delay given an environment, is evaluated for cases without and with dynamic restoral of failures via repeat transmission. Response time vs. packet length is also modelled. Without dynamic restoral, shown are: reliability is a limiting factor; relative robustness of higher bit rates for voice. With dynamic restoral, the M.O.E. approaches 1 as delay approaches infinity. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA107886

Entities

People

  • Robert Podell

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Communication Systems
  • Distribution Functions
  • Engineering
  • Failed States
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Information Transfer
  • Mathematical Models
  • Measurement
  • Models
  • New York
  • Normal Distribution
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Random Variables
  • Time Domain

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.