Prioritized Unbalanced Traffic Total Yield (PUTTY): Topology Management for MNH Increment 2 Waveform

Mayflower Communication Company, Inc. (Mayflower) proposes a Topology Management technology, the Prioritized Unbalanced Traffic Total Yield (PUTTY), to meet the Navy objective, namely, to develop advanced approaches for readily deployable Topology Management algorithms that address the complexity of mobile Ad Hoc Mesh Communication Networks constructed of directional antennas, and demonstrate its ability to optimize total network carrying capacity in a tactical ad hoc environment with unbalanced traffic. The proposed PUTTY topology management includes (1) network monitoring and analysis algorithms, and (2) network topology optimization algorithms. These two categories of topology management algorithms are applied repeatedly to dynamically optimize the network topology. Low complexity of the algorithms ensures that the proposed topology management is able to manage networks with hundreds of heterogeneous nodes. The PUTTY technology, which has been proven feasible in the Phase I study for the Navy application, has enormous potential for military and commercial applications. Mayflower will develop a prototype PUTTY system in Phase II, and demonstrate its capabilities and performance on a heterogeneous radio test bed. Mayflower will also work with the prime contractor selected to develop the Mobile Networking Hi-band (MNH) Increment 2 waveform to transition PUTTY topology management to the MNH Increment 2 waveform.