IP Performance Enhancement Protocols

Naval wireless communications systems can be made to support higher IP throughputs by incorporating Performance Enhancement Protocols (PEPs) such as traffic shaping, quality of service, caching, compression, acceleration, proxies, channel access protocols, and forward error correction (FEC) techniques. Trident will identify and investigate candidate PEPs and to analyze how they improve and impact system performance. As part of this investigation, Trident proposes the use of active network technology as a performance enhancing device to facilitate implementation of PEPs. Also, we will leverage our expertise in protocol design and implementation to investigate, design and develop the Navy IP Performance Enhancement Request (NIPPER) protocol. Under the Phase I option, we will develop a simulation model and perform in-depth analysis of the proposed approaches and report the results. The work proposed herein will significantly enhance the decision-making, situation awareness, command and control capabilities of naval communications systems.