Prometheus: Enhancing the Quality of Service of the Joint Battlespace Infosphere
Douglas C. Schmidt, Ken Birman, Mike Reiter · 2006
This project investigated performance, scalability and associated quality of service (QoS) needs of the Global Information Grid (GIG) and Network-Centric Enterprise Systems (NCES) in the context of large-scale DoD C2 and C4ISR systems-of-systems (SoS) architectures, with additional attention to security considerations. The objectives of this study were to: Explore and classify near-term (lower risk) requirements and opportunities; Develop prototypical proofs-of-concepts and evaluations aimed at establishing a technology baseline in the area of QoS-enabled JBI; Produce a guide to future R&D activities; Develop an empirically-based understanding of the extent to which QoS and other properties can be addressed in limited ways by these COTS platforms; and Identify open questions on which fundamental research may be required to close the gap between capabilities of existing SOA platforms, including anticipated platform extensions, and requirements that arise in DoD contexts.