QoS-enabled Wireless Reliable Multicast (QWiReM)

"Communication and wireless network technology have advanced to the state where portable computing devices have proliferated to enable ubiquitous computing. Similarly, Internet technology has grown tremendously including popular media streaming applicationsthat support multicast. There remain significant obstacles, however, to integrate wireless and multicast technologies.Many military applications require multicast transmission to properly and efficiently operate. Particularly, the FCS program and the MOSAIC ATD both have requirements for secure adaptive mobile wireless network communications, including multicasttransport.Trident has developed a reliable multicast protocol intended for the Army's tactical networks. The Wireless Reliable Multicast (WiReM) provides reliable multicast transfer, utilizing a dynamic self-configuring routing capability that works well in ad hocenvironments.Trident Systems proposes to build upon the successful implementation of WiReM to develop a scalable, mobile QoS reliable multicast protocol. The QoS-enabled WiReM (QWiReM) protocol is a logical evolution of our reliable multicast research. TridentSystems will research and develop different approaches for implementing QoS. We will investigate real-time CORBA and IETF QoS protocols and their applicability to the military tactical environment. For the Phase I Option, we propose to develop a prototypebased on the WiReM implementation to validate the f