Advanced Distributed Real-Time Database Management System

The ability to integrate and manage vast amounts of data from distributed, heterogeneous sources is critical to decision makers using Battle Management Command and Control systems (BMC2). For this purpose, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes todevelop a novel Advanced distributed Real-time Databases Management System (ARDMS). ARDMS introduces dynamic data encoding and dynamic data decoding technology for real-time data transfer. Instead of using conventional TCP data delivery, which isinefficient for a tightly coupled low-latency network, ARDMS innovatively builds on an efficient and reliable data transfer technology with robust handling of missing or imprecise data, and will greatly improve the speed and reliability of communicationbetween sensors and ground stations. ARDMS uses the universal XML data format as its basic data format, and efficiently handles the fusion of data from heterogeneous sources. Phase I will demonstrate the laboratory ARDMS prototype capable of managingreal-time distributed databases and the feasibility of its integration into an existing BMC2 system. Phase II will further advance this technology, and demonstrate ARDMS applicability to selected military and commercial applications. Management ofdistributed real-time databases based on the proposed ARDMS system has significant commercial potential. This potential for telecommunication alone represents a huge market. Key commercial applications for ARDMS include electronic commerce and almost anyWeb-based data rich application.