New Frontiers in Networking with Emphasis on Defense Applications

Abstract

Future networks will increasingly become heterogeneous and networks will be much more highly tuned to achieve much better performance than current architectures (e.g. increase of ~1000 times in data rate even under extreme conditions such as high mobility). These networks will have multiple modalities (wired, wireless, satellite) with disparate channel properties, user rates that range from low to ultra-high (Tbps+) and a wide range of service requirements. Many new network problems that arise in future networks may not be served well by the ~50 year old Internet architecture even with constant evolutions. Increasingly the link layers are very dynamic in their adaptation to rapidly changing environments including both channel properties, achievable rates and offered traffic. When the networks go through a disruptive jump in rates and service quality in the future, they must be built with new innovations in network architectures to drive cost down to affordable levels. Linear extensions of old Internet packet switching architectures and techniques no longer will be the concept that can fully serve future applications. We will convene a roundtable discussion to explore the properties of emerging applications and identify new architecture techniques and constructs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1011050

Entities

People

  • Vincent W. Chan

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Application Software
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Climate Change
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Rate
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Topology
  • Networks
  • Software Defined Networks
  • Space Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Space