Windows NT multi-threaded design in a multi-link translator and display system

摘要

The future vision of communication systems suggests a global grid will be used to enable links among any battlefield participant to any other participant. In the meantime, there are many diverse data links that have grown over many years, consumed substantial investment of effort and funding, and are not amenable to wholesale modernization. Consequently, there is a need for a set of tools to allow interconnected communications among the existing data links. The multi-link translator and display system (MTDS) offers this set of tools. The MTDS provides three basic capabilities: to receive and display tactical data link information, to translate between tactical data link message sets, and to route the data link information between various physical interfaces. MTDS translates between Tactical Digital Information Link (TADIL) A, TADIL B and TADIL J. This paper first describes the MTDS and then presents its Windows NT multi-threaded design.