Integrated Autonomous Network Management (IANM) Multi-Topology Route Manager and Analyzer

摘要

This report documents the Multi-Topology Routing (MTR) Route Manager and Analyzer (RMA) program for The Boeing Company under Office of Naval Research (ONR) Contract N00014-05-C-0012. The MTR RMA program ran from July 2005 through February 2008, and was part of a broader Integrated Autonomous Network Management (IANM) program funded by ONR and coordinated by Navy SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego. The goal of Boeing's IANM MTR Route Manager and Analyzer (RMA) project was to explore the feasibility of exploiting Multi-Topology Routing (MTR) or similar technologies to perform load balancing and traffic engineering in Navy ADNS scenarios. In a previous ONR research effort, Boeing and Cisco Systems had studied the applicability of MTR in the context of Navy network scenarios, and Boeing had produced a Linux-based prototype of MTR- enhanced routing software for the Open Shortest Path First version 2 (OSPFv2) protocol. While the previous effort demonstrated the utility of MTR (which was later highlighted by a successful coalition Trident Warrior 2006 Sea Trial), a key missing component was an analytical tool that could assist the operator in generating robust and efficient routing configurations for larger networking topologies. Hence, Boeing proposed and ONR selected for funding the Multi- Topology Routing Route Manager and Analyzer (RMA) program. Boeing was instructed by ONR to coordinate its efforts with the IANM program, and Boeing therefore initially focused on building the MTR RMA capability as an IANM component.