DYNAMO--Dynamic Network Analysis and Monitoring Agency

A DMO network topology is critical to the proper operation of distributed training exercises. The ad-hoc nature of most simulation networks provides a measure of flexibility but at the expense of easily quantifiable performance characteristics. There are many commercial tools that address network performance. Unfortunately, solutions targeted at industry are based on an office model and not a DMO training simulation network model. As such, they are able to ignore two important characteristics that must be addressed with a DMO system: (1) the need for an embedded measurement system to have negligible impact on the network particularly at critical points in the simulation, and (2) the need for the measurement system to adapt to rapidly-changing network topography and the effect of a particular simulation on the network performance. SYTRONICS proposes to develop an embedded network monitoring system, utilizing multi-agent design that can be used to efficiently measure and optimize the interactive performance of entities within and across DMO training simulations. The intelligent agents are distributed, highly-configurable, capable of integrating information at a high level from various sources, and unobtrusive to the networks on which it is deployed.