Adaptive Probabilistic Protocols for Advanced Networks/Assuring the Integrity of Highly Decentralized Communications Systems

Abstract

The project consisted of two merged DARPA-funded efforts exploring related but different topics. The first was a project to develop a new kind of probabilistically scalable, stable, communications protocols and to exploit these protocols in building a new kind of scalable software infrastructure for large, dynamic, mission-critical networked applications. Examples include networks exploited to support massive data centers (such as are used by the NSA and CIA, by a great variety of military applications, and by a new generation of lightweight sensor networks). The second was a project to elaborate on a new "compositional" method for protocol design and implementation, in which small microprotocols are combined to obtain a protocol customized to the needs of a specific setting, under control of an automated theorem proving system that can guarantee correctness of the resulting specialized protocol, subject to the validity of assumptions that guide the process. The second was a project to elaborate on a new "compositional" method for protocol design and implementation, in which small microprotocols are combined to obtain a protocol customized to the needs of a specific setting, under control of an automated theorem proving system that can guarantee correctness of the resulting specialized protocol, subject to the validity of assumptions that guide the process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA432049

Entities

Organizations

  • Cornell University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communication Systems
  • Communications Protocols
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Centers
  • Detectors
  • Information Systems
  • Mesh Networks
  • Military Applications
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Reliability
  • Sensor Networks
  • Transport Protocols
  • Wireless Communications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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