Scaleability Panel Review

Abstract

A peer review panel was held at IDA on August 19 and 20, 1993, to address the challenges of network scaleability as it pertains to the Synthetic Theater of War (STOW) program. The goal of STOW is to conduct a Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) demonstration in 1994 with 10,000 entities (live, virtual, and constructive), with 100,000 entities by 1997, over the DSI network. Scaleability addresses techniques for maximizing the number of DIS entities on the network by minimizing the network load, both in terms of bandwidth and packets per second. The panel, which consisted of five network scaleability experts, was presented with the current research being conducted by three separate contractors. The experts provided insights on how STOW's goals could be met. They expressed concern over meeting the requirement for a secure network, given the current network encryption requirements. They recommended T3 circuits as a backbone to handle the network traffic.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA285508

Entities

People

  • Dale B. Henderson
  • David L. Mills
  • David R. Cheriton
  • Duncan C. Miller
  • Stuart D. Cheshire

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Cryptography
  • Department Of Defense
  • Digital Communications
  • Distributed Interactive Simulations
  • Engineering
  • Local Area Networks
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Network Topology
  • Routing Protocols
  • Software Development
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation