Software Defined Radio Automated Testing Solution

The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) standard, published by the Joint Tactical Networking Center (JTNC), defines a set of rules and behaviors for the core management, deployment, configuration, and control of applications on an embedded system platform, enabling programmable hardware to run applications and be networked into an integrated system. The SCA has been structured to facilitate ‘portability’ of applications software between different SCA-compliant platforms and ‘interoperability’ provided by the Applications Programming Interfaces (APIs). In order to determine if an application is compliant with the SCA, it must be verified by a set of verification procedures, using one or more of the following methods: inspection, analysis, demonstration, testing. The verification is a costly process. The objective of this project is to develop a platform for testing and analysis of waveforms with respect to the SCA 4.1 with the overall goal of providing means for increased automation of the test procedures, and thus reducing the cost and time of verification. The Phase I prototype will provide an extensible environment for the construction, organization, execution, and summary of automated, reproducible compliance tests on waveform products and will be integrable with the JTEL test platform. The deliverables will also include testing results and documentation.