Army Research Laboratory, ALC Procurement Division, ATTN: AMSRL-CS-PR-SC, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, MD 20783-1197

A -- DEVELOPMENT OF A SIMULATION USING MATLAB SOFTWARE SOL W71B7J8030C103 DUE 041398 POC Deborah Robertson, Purchasing Agent, (301) 394-1203, Beth Smith, Contracting Officer, (301) 394-3371. Contractor shall assess the relative importance and feasibility of Beamforming and Diversity through analysis and simulation. The contractor shall extend an existing proprietary simulation based on analytical expressions and models provided by the Army monitor. The simulation shall use METLAB software. The simulation shall include as outputs the spatial probability that the symbol error rate is below a variable threshold and the average output probability, as functions of the number of users in a cellular network or peer to peer network. In the cellular network, both forward and reverse links shall be treated. Other system details shall be provided by the Army monitor. The contractor shall provide simulation diskettes and the necessary documentation to enable the Army monitor to understand, modify and run the simulation. This award is intended to be made on a sole source basis to Cubic Defense Systems, San Diego, CA. Cubic Defense Systems already has created a proprietary computer program in the MATLABlanguage that does most of the desired simulation. This remaining task is to extend the program so that the performance effects of beamforming and spatial diversity can be compared quantitatively. Responsible sources may submit a bid, proposal or quotation by facsimile to Deborah Robertson, (301) 394-1162, which shall be considered by the agency. No telephone requests will be honored. See Numbered Note(s): 22. (0056)

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