Application Profiling for Network Centric Warfare

References for simulation:
[1] Military Inter-vehicle communication with message priority using IEEE 802.11e 

Priority Type Examples
Pri(1) Combat - Combat occurrence
- Help request
- Additional force request
Pri(2) Alert - Enemy invasion
- Threat report
- Solider injury
Pri(3) Warning - Enemy appearance
warning
- Enemy pattern change
Pri(4) General - Survey report
- General situation rep

Interface specification

Interface IEEE802.11a
Data Rate 6 Mbps
Packet Payload Size 100 Bytes
Packet Generation Interval 0.1 second
Number of Transmission 40
nodes
RTS Threshold 256 Bytes
(no RTS in this experiment)
Channel 1
Buffer Size 256,000 bits

Application packet generation rate, model for traffic generation and quantity, packet inter-arrival time are not provided.

[2]QoS traffic specification from thesis "Scheduling in IEEE 802.11e Networks with Quality of Service Assurance"

Application	Voice	VBR H.261 Video	FTP
Packet size (bytes)	160	660	1200
Mean Data rate (kbps)	64	200	350
Minimum Data rate (kbps)	25	150	250
Maximum Service Interval (ms)	25	30	35
Delay Bound (ms)	120	180	infinity

NS-2 Application Traffic Description for Exponetial/Pareto and CBR