Investigations Into the Application of NMS Tools to Modeling the Global Information Grid (GIG)

摘要

This report documents our work in support of transition of the capabilities and tools developed within the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Information Program Technology Office (IPTO) Network Modeling and Simulation (NMS) Program to the greater Department of Defense (DoD) community. We chose to use the efforts to design and architect the Global Information Grid (GIG) as a test case. We then identified a set of performance studies of interest to GIG engineers and architects, compared the set of tools and capabilities derived within the DARPA NMS program against the needs of these performance studies, and identified a software architecture (based upon these and related tools) for a reusable GIG simulation platform. In the process we identified a set of gaps in tool sets that require further work, i.e., capabilities software development and integration.