GENerative Waveform Agnostic Gateway (GENWAG) architecture

In order for the Department of Defense (DoD) Global Information Grid (GIG) vision to become a reality, thousands of gateways will be needed for inter-networking between disparate waveforms. Until now gateways are designed for specific waveform domains, this approach although simple and quick has led to a lot of duplication of effort within DoD. In this proposal UtopiaCompression (UC)-UCLA team along with the Boeing Company proposes to develop a generative programming architecture for gateway design where XML descriptions of waveforms could be parsed and gateway code could be automatically assembled and integrated to create any target gateway. In addition our team builds on multiple ongoing SBIR programs to tackle important research questions regarding online gateway reconfiguration during mission, inter-waveform unicast/multicast routing architecture, Application translation, Medium Access Protocol for the inter-connection, and securing the inter-connection. All of the above functionalities are bundled together in the Ubiquitous Inter-Connection Waveform (UIW). The three team members UC, UCLA and Boeing are already working cohesively in multiple DoD advanced Communications and Networking programs.