Opportunistic Mission Critical Information Dissemination using Incentives in Delay (Disruption) Tolerant Networks

In this project, the focus is to enhance the advanced Information Management (IM) services. There is a need to further improve the exchange of information through message delivery between enterprise and the tactical edge networks and applications, the information management services need to be capable of operating in contested/congested environments and be built upon disruption and fault tolerant techniques and technologies. The objective is to develop and demonstrate opportunistic delay or disruption tolerant networks (DTNs) for rapid access to ISR and to support hybrid and decentralized IM services across enterprise and tactical network infrastructures to enable effective information exchange for shared situational awareness. This will bridge the gap between low bandwidth and high bandwidth data producers and consumers and provide the ability to discover and share data across disparate systems under GOT-IT architecture. In this environment, thus, priority of messages, intelligent caching of mission critical messages using incentives, higher message delivery of unique messages as well as reducing the network traffic is very important for the mission.

Researcher

Shudip Datta