Real-time Multimedia Communications in Highly Mobile Networks.

"Innovative Concepts and George Washington University (GWU) will build on the existing research and will examine and test the feasibility of a system that will support mobility and provide connectivity without complicated system management techniques. Thisnetwork shall provide a quality of service algorithm to select the most efficient path to transmit data/voice to self-level the congestion of the network. Voice and data on the network must be given separate priorities. Fault management techniques willalso be involved to support the loss and addition of nodes in the network structure. The result of this study would be the definition of an architecture for a highly mobile data/voice network with the following performance characteristics: ¿ Guaranteed connectivity¿ Reliable, time-critical exchange of voice and data¿ Highly mobile, scaleable, and bandwidth efficient¿ Supports secure exchange of critical command and control information without centralized facilities. Once the protocol becomes a commercial standard, it could be applied to hundreds, if not thousands, of uses in the mobile wireless business. Innovative Concepts would continue development of the concept in our area of expertise, seamless mobileconnectivity. Any entity that needs to move, fast in and out of networks, without having to worry about connectivity would benefit from this effort. Military, government, and civilian agencies involved in law enforcement, recovery operations or other typesof activities requiring secure, reliable, mobile communications would benefit"