According to Telcordia, its work will focus on generating network management policies from mission specifications; integrated fault and information assurance (IA) correlation; automated response to diagnosed network faults and IA problems; adaptive middleware for automated adaptation to network conditions; joint policy-based network management and software-in-the-loop simulation and testing.
Ritu Chadha, chief scientist and program manager for Tactical Information Technologies for Assured Networks (TITAN) at Telcordia, said: “Self-healing, ad hoc mobile networks are designed to ensure secure communications under extreme conditions, including nodes constantly on the move or destroyed in battle. The company is developing next-generation technologies that one day can be used to improve the reliability of consumer and enterprise networks.
Earlier in June 2008, Telcordia declared that it has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to play a key role in the Dynamic Multi-Terabit Core Optical Networks (CORONET) program. The objective of the CORONET program is to develop protocols, algorithms, network architectures and control and management capabilities to support highly dynamic multi-terabit, core optical networks that support both IP and wavelength services. The program was created to enable a dramatic increase in the performance, resilience and security of the U.S. global inter-networking infrastructure.
