Waveform Model Enhancements for Parametric Traffic Generation

Battlefield operations are increasingly driven by mission critical, network-centric applications. Each branch of service within the DoD has several programs that use modeling and simulation to plan, test and analyze communication networks. These programs span a wide variety of protocols, waveforms, networks, and models, often times across multiple tools. In some cases, the waveforms and protocols do not use the full TCP/IP network stack. Currently there does not exist a realistic traffic generator that can plan and deploy traffic across the disparate waveforms and models. In this SBIR proposal we present a parametric traffic generation application that will enable comprehensive testing of request and response application flows across a variety of waveforms and models, including network stacks other than TCP/IP. The parametric traffic generation application will be designed to send a request packet to a destination address, and receive responses from one or more receivers of the request packet. A framework will be developed to allow the application to work across network models that span different waveforms and network stacks. The framework will include traffic generation model, a Graphical Interface to facilitate rapid model configuration, and an extensible API to facilitate integration across other simulators or emulators as needed.