SimQoS: A scalable, real-time capability for analysis of dynamic QoS provisioning in autonomous intelligent networked systems

The objective of this SBIR effort is to develop a modeling and simulation capability that can be used to demonstrate that distributed, intelligent networked systems can perform cooperatively in very large numbers to satisfy time-varying QoS requirements of a diverse set of military applications. While technology research & development efforts can demonstrate viability of the concepts and technologies at the level of a few tens and even hundreds of elements, it is necessary that these systems scale to the many tens of thousands of nodes (including sensors, relays, transmitters, and receiver nodes) to fulfill the ambitious objectives for which they are being designed. This project will develop the architecture, methodology, models, and analysis capabilities to facilitate such scalability investigations. At the end of Phase I, we will demonstrate the simulation of a QoS network with more than a thousand nodes. This will be used to establish the validity of our approach for eventual development of SimQoS in Phase 2 to scale up to the tens of thousands of nodes. The eventual impact of this project will be to create an extensible framework for accurate & fast comparison of alternative QoS provisioning schemes in large autonomous, intelligent mobile networks.