Integration of Communication and Social Network Modeling Platforms using ELICIT and the Wireless Emulation Laboratory

摘要

Creating models and experiment platforms that study the relationships and interactions between composite networks will enable the design of tactical networks to maximize mission performance of an organization. Tactical environments can be conceptualized by complex networks, a composition of communication, social/cognitive, and information networks. We describe an approach to integrate ELICIT (Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing and Trust) with an existing wireless emulation test bed, the Wireless Emulation Laboratory (WEL). These modifications enhance the capability to simulate more realistic communication models during trials of ELICIT experiments. Gaining an understanding of how communication network parameters affect decision-making performance in social networks will enable the design of tactical networks to optimally support mission operations. Experiments using the emulation environment will provide validation to the parameters in ELICIT used to simulate communication network parameters. Additionally, we study how specific ELICIT parameters can be used to represent both social and communication network concepts.