Network Aware Tactical Collaborative Environments
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Bordetsky, Alex
Hutchins, Susan G.
Kemple, William G.
Bourakov, Eugene
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2004-09
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September 2004
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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The implications of using mobile wireless communications
are significant for emerging peer-to-peer (P2P)
collaborative environments. From a networking
perspective, the use of wireless technologies to support
collaboration may impact bandwidth and spectrum
utilization. This paper explores these network effects and
describes an agent-based solution for providing feedback
to system users regarding wireless P2P network behavior
on the performance of collaboration support applications.
We refer to this operational feedback as "network
awareness." The underlying premise is that providing
feedback on the status of the network will enable users to
self-organize their behavior to maintain quality of data
sharing. Results achieved during experiments conducted at
the Naval Postgraduate School demonstrate significant
effects of network behavior on application sharing performance
and integration with client-server applications. A
solution for improving network aware P2P collaboration,
identified during the experiment, is discussed.
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supported by the Joint Experimentation Laboratory, Joint Forces Command, Drs. Russell Richards and Keith Curtis, and the Department of Justice, Homeland Security Research Program, Special Operations Command and CDTEMS Program at NPS, Dr. Dave Netzer and CWOII Chris Manuel.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.