Telcordia to Develop Self-Healing Battlefield Networks for US Army

The US Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center has selected Telcordia to develop self-healing battlefield networks.

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, reliable communications even under the most extreme conditions, including nodes constantly on the move or destroyed in battle. By leading the TITAN project, Telcordia is not only helping ensure that US troops can stay connected under any conditions, but also developing next-generation technologies that one day can be used to improve the reliability of consumer and enterprise networks.”