Reactive Planning and Management Architecture for MANET

MANET Management to provide efficient on-demand data transportation can tremendously benefit tactical operations. Most current MANET management tools reply heavily on expert intervention to address dynamic nature of MANET. Absence of automatic optimization and reconfiguration for MANET results in stability problem and underutilization of the network resources. We propose a Reactive Planning and Management Architecture for the capability enhancement of MANET manager, which combines the benefits of black-box optimization and design of experiment to automate the network optimization, reconfiguration, and on-line simulation. Our proposed approach is applicable to optimization of many different network elements, which is very difficult by using specialized computations. The proposed solution also utilizes mission information from a network planning stage to improve deployment conditions and provide useful guidance during a MANET life span. A state-of-art network simulator is a part of the solution to find good set of configuration parameters in much shorter duration. Realistic mobile network scenarios are chosen for experimental study in this project. The effort of Phase I and Options will include evaluation and development of the proposed Reactive Planning and Management.