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Connectivity Technologies for the Warfighter Network

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA8750-05-C-0148
Agency Tracking Number: F051-108-2367
Amount: $99,999.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF05-108
Solicitation Number: 2005.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2005
Award Year: 2005
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2005-04-13
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2006-01-13
Small Business Information
429 West Airline Highway, Suite S
LaPlace, LA 70068
United States
DUNS: 057140477
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: Yes
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Zeinab Sabri
 Senior Engineer
 (985) 652-1127
 dr_sabri@rtconline.com
Business Contact
 Zeinab Sabri
Title: President & COO
Phone: (985) 652-1127
Email: dr_sabri@rtconline.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

In this Phase I SBIR Project foundational innovations in connectivity technologies are developed for the warfighter network to effectively increase the digital bandwidth to wirelessly connected users. The innovations involve wireless networking architectures and initial designs that provide high bandwidth, energy efficient, communication links between disparate wireless networks; the best two routing algorithms and projected throughput enhancement from their use; and approaches to model and simulate their performance. The innovative applications of radio and networking technologies are based on exploitation of the dense concentrations of wireless users to support high bandwidth but bursty applications such as image and video transfers. Communication between ad hoc networks containing nodes of disparate types can be accommodated by fitting some nodes with multiple radios, in order to bridge the different node types. Route discovery in the next-generation ad hoc routing protocol must then take into account the types of nodes involved in a transmission, to ensure that communication between the endpoints is possible. By studying the existing ad hoc routing protocols, suitable candidates can be selected to form the basis of new ad hoc routing protocols. Accordingly, new protocols can then be developed and tested, embodying the next-generation features.

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