Investigations Into the Application of NMS Tools to Modeling the Global Information Grid (GIG)

Abstract

This report documents our work in support of transition of the capabilities and tools developed within the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Information Program Technology Office (IPTO) Network Modeling and Simulation (NMS) Program to the greater Department of Defense (DoD) community. We chose to use the efforts to design and architect the Global Information Grid (GIG) as a test case. We then identified a set of performance studies of interest to GIG engineers and architects, compared the set of tools and capabilities derived within the DARPA NMS program against the needs of these performance studies, and identified a software architecture (based upon these and related tools) for a reusable GIG simulation platform. In the process we identified a set of gaps in tool sets that require further work, i.e., capabilities software development and integration.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 2005
Accession Number
ADA441364

Entities

People

  • Bharat Doshi
  • Robert G. Cole

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Case Studies
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programs
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • High Performance Computing
  • Information Operations
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Network Protocols
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Probability
  • Routing Protocols
  • Software Development
  • Wireless Communications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Software Engineering.