Research Theme 2
Research Theme 2 covers Network engineering encompassing modelling, measurement and management of tactical and strategic networks. The DSIC Director, Network Engineering is Dr Bruce Northcote, University of Adelaide.
Proposed projects include:
- Modelling of current and future networking in land and littoral scenarios.
- Modelling of internetworking between different wireless technologies, including aspects of protocol interworking, mobility management and performance.
- Network management, including automated / simplified configuration / re-configuration of networks, verification, multi-level security, internetworking, and multi-network distribution of policies.
- Efficient and Effective Measurement Collection and Interpretation, real-time use of measurements for network control, measurements for network design and optimization, traffic characterization, including automated measurement collection and analysis, and automated collection of application level measurements (performance, characterization, …)
- Quality of Service prediction in Wide Area Networks, ability to deliver QoS across different defence specific network technologies, and ability to deliver QoS reliably across security domains.
- Simulation / Emulation in the loop, including performance emulation demonstration techniques, tools for large scale network demonstration, and investigation of the impact of different modes of communications on command and control effectiveness
- Network optimization, including design, allocation of applications to servers to meet QoS and capacity requirements and strategic capacity planning in support of operations.
- Stochastic modelling of routing techniques, including Border Gateway Protocol and intra-domain routing and impacts of IPv6 on routing.