US-M-Q
Implementing Military Quality of Service I (Warfighter Centric)
Farroha, Deborah ORGANIZER: Farroha, Deborah Farroha, Sam
The subject of Quality of Service (QoS) has been gaining an increasing role in the areas of messaging and communication. It is especially relevant since the DoD decided to implement the Global Information Grid (GIG), a network of networks that will be the basis for internal and external communications. The trend is to migrate current networking capabilities in addition to providing new capabilities in order to take advantage of this new resource. QoS becomes critical to the successful implementation of the GIG, particularly in times of crisis, to ensure the delivery of vital and actionable information to the intended destination with the reliability, integrity, latency and security that is required. This session includes papers that investigate warfighter applications, challenges and approaches to solutions. It addresses topics such as development of algorithms, architectures, and methods which have been studied by modeling, analysis, or practical experimentations for military-specific issues. The sessions cover areas of strategic, tactical and mobile assets that are used to deliver real-time and non-real-time information especially where heterogeneous networks are involved.
Deborah L. Farroha holds a B.S. and an M.S in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. She is Level III Acquisition (DAWIA) certified in Systems, Planning, Research, Development and Engineering. She has 20 years of expertise in large systems development and acquisition, concept explorations, interoperability and program management. Her research interests include information sharing technologies, systems engineering processes and Service Oriented Architectures. She currently leads the strategic research and liaison effort to facilitate interoperability of various DoD systems and information sharing within the Intelligence Community. Bassam S. Farroha received his B.S. in Computer Engineering and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Institute of technology. He also holds an MBA from the Johns Hopkins University. He is a Senior System Engineer/Architect at the Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory supporting multiple DoD programs in the areas of communications and networking and he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland UC. He has over 20 years experience in the field and his current research interests are in areas of systems architecture and optimization, system of systems, QoS, mobile communications and heterogeneous networking. He holds multiple national and international publications. He is a member of the ACM, SPIE, and a Senior Member of the IEEE.