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Telcordia in 'self-healing' battlefield networks for US Army
2008-11-10 13:39:10
Piscataway, USA -- 5 November, 2008 - The US Army's Communications - Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) has selected Telcordia to lead the network management portion of its Tactical Information Technologies for Assured Networks (TITAN) Advanced Technology Objective. The four year, multi-million dollar contract is, says Telcordia, an acknowledgement of its pioneering role in developing advanced, reliable tactical networks that can automatically route voice, video and data traffic around damaged nodes in order to keep soldiers and officers connected."On the battlefield, communications can mean life or death," said Ritu Chadha, chief scientist and TITAN Program Manager, Advanced Technology Solutions, Telcordia. "Self-healing, ad hoc mobile networks are designed to ensure secure, reliable communications even under the most extreme conditions, including nodes constantly on the move or destroyed in battle. By leading the TITAN project, Telcordia is not only helping to ensure that US troops can stay connected under any conditions, but also developing next generation technologies that one day can be used to improve the reliability of consumer and enterprise networks."
Telcordia's work will focus on generating network management policies from mission specifications; integrated fault and information assurance (IA) correlation; automated response to diagnosed network faults and IA problems; adaptive middleware for automated adaptation to network conditions; joint policy-based network management and software-in-the-loop simulation and testing.
Working for the Army Research Labs, Telcordia has developed techniques to analyse mobile network protocols, including various versions of Mobile IP, DNS, routing and clustering protocols, and recommended improved designs.
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