A Hybrid Communications Network Simulation-Independent Toolkit

Net-centric warfare requires information superiority to enable decision superiority, culminating in insurmountable combat power against our enemies on the battlefield. Information superiority must be attained and retained for success in today’s joint/coalition battlespace. To accomplish this goal, our combat networks must reliably, expediently and completely deliver over a wide range of mobile and fixed assets. Furthermore, each asset must be given special consideration for the sensitivity, priority and volume of information required by the mission. Evolving a grand design of the enabling network will require a flexible evaluation platform to try and select the right combination of network strategies and protocols in the realms of topology control and routing. This research will result in a toolkit for ns2 that will enable rapid interfacing and evaluation of new networking algorithms and/or protocols. The toolkit will be the springboard for development of an optimal, multi-dimensional and flexible network for linking combat entities in the battlespace

The synTraff Suite of Traffic Modeling Toolkits

This paper describes three visually interactive tools for the analysis, modeling, and generation of long-range dependent (LRD) network traffic. The synTraff toolkit uses a three-step modeling approach based on F-ARIMA processes to generate monofractal traffic; the WsynTraff toolkit implements the Wavelet-domain Independent Gaussian (WIG) model from the literature for representing multifractal traffic; and the MsynTraff toolkit models multifractal traffic using the Multifractal Wavelet Model (MWM) from the literature. All three tools can be used to generate synthetic LRD traffic streams for use in network simulations. 1