Automated performance evaluation technique for cryptologic sites.

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Mackin, John Michael
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1992-09Advisor
Wadsworth, Donald v.Z.
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Adler, Richard W.
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Currently, Naval Security Group (NSG) personnel lack an
automated system for evaluating Signals-of-Interest (SOI)
collection performance of NSG sites. The performance evaluation
technique (PET) , developed by faculty and students of the Naval
Postgraduate School, is intended to meet this need. A means for
automating the PET has been developed under this thesis research.
This "MATLAB Automated PET System" (MAPS) is described in this
thesis and compared with the previous manual PET and a semi-automated
version based on GRAFTOOL software. MAPS, based on the
high-level language, MATLAB, utilizes measured signal and noise
levels and system gains and losses to evaluate site performance in
terms of percent of SOI lost. This information is critical to
managers and operators of the various NSG collection sites located
throughout the world. It permits managers to assess operator
performance, evaluate the impact of encroachments in the vicinity
of the site, determine the utility of proposed interference
mitigation actions, recognize the effect of natural phenomena (such
as solar storms) on the SOI collection capability, and predict
future SOI collection performance. The manual, semi-automated, and
automated PET systems were compared in the areas of cost, speed,
ease-of-operation, and accuracy of the performance estimation.
MAPS was determined to be the most useful approach for providing
automated PET capabilities to the NSG sites.
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