SBIR/STTR Research Award
HIGHLY SURVIVABLE ORTHOGONAL MESH NETWORK
Award amount
$49,842Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1987Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- SYNETICS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF A TOPOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE TO MEET THE PERFORMANCE, RELIABILITY AND SURVIVABILITY REQUIREMENTS OF INTEGRATED NETWORK DATA SYSTEMS. AN ORTHOGONAL MESH NETWORK ARCHITECTURE, BASED ON A 125 MBPS FIBER DISTRIBUTED DATA INTERFACE (FDDI) FIBER-OPTIC TOKEN PASSING BUS WILL BE DEFINED AND ANALYZED. A DISTRIBUTED RECONFIGURATION ALGORITHM WILL BE DEVELOPED AND VARIOUS ALTERNATIVE NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS WILL BE INVESTIGATED. PERFORMANCE SIMULATIONS WILL BE RUN USING A UNIQUE, EVENT-STEPPED MONTE CARLO SIMULATION MODEL DEVELOPED BY SYNETICS. THIS EFFORT WILL PROVIDE A MEASURE OF PERFORMANCE AND A COMPARISON OF THE RELIABILITY AND SURVIVABILITY OF VARIOUS NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS.
Technology keywords
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