Patent ID: 7711317

Claim:
A method for configuring the minimum number of relay radios in a live-virtual communications system for a tactical training event, the system comprising live radios, a wide area network, virtual radios cooperating with the wide area network, and a multiplicity of radio bridge circuits cooperating between each live radio and the wide area network, each radio bridge circuit further comprising one relay radio and one bridge circuit where number of relay radios comprises the steps of: a. determining the mean transmission time for the tactical training event; b. determining the duration of peak performance for the tactical training event; c. determining the expected number of transmissions for the tactical training event; d. predicting the traffic capacity required using the relationship E n ⁡ ( α ) = α ⁢ ⁢ E n - 1 ⁡ ( α ) n + α ⁢ ⁢ E n - 1 ⁡ ( α ) e. specifying a QoS; and f. specifying a spare capacity.