IP Performance Enhancement Protocols Navy SBIR FY2004.2 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2004.2 Topic No.: N04-182 Topic Title: IP Performance Enhancement Protocols Proposal No.: N042-182-0 Firm: Trident Systems Inc. 10201 Lee Highway Suite 300 Fairfax, Virginia 22030-2222 Contact: Scott Thomas Phone: (919) 847-9123 Web Site: www.tridsys.com Abstract: Naval wireless communications systems can be made to support higher IP throughputs by incorporating Performance Enhancement Protocols (PEPs) such as traffic shaping, quality of service, caching, compression, acceleration, proxies, channel access protocols, and forward error correction (FEC) techniques. Trident will identify and investigate candidate PEPs and to analyze how they improve and impact system performance. As part of this investigation, Trident proposes the use of active network technology as a performance enhancing device to facilitate implementation of PEPs. Also, we will leverage our expertise in protocol design and implementation to investigate, design and develop the Navy IP Performance Enhancement Request (NIPPER) protocol. Under the Phase I option, we will develop a simulation model and perform in-depth analysis of the proposed approaches and report the results. The work proposed herein will significantly enhance the decision-making, situation awareness, command and control capabilities of naval communications systems. Benefits: Implementation of the NIPPER protocol will improve IP performance on the Navy RF Wide Area Network (WAN) through noisy, narrow and medium bandwidth satellite communications (SATCOM) (long delay) and Line-Of-Sight (LOS) (noisy, intermittent) links with highly constrained bandwidth. Return