US-M-X
Performance Modeling and Simulation
Comparetto, Gary ORGANIZER: Comparetto, Gary
The DoD is evolving toward an end-to-end, seamless, network-centric communications capability that will be required to support a wide range of platform and traffic types, network configurations, delivery methods, and offered traffic loads. Additional complexity is introduced by the need to traverse heterogeneous (i.e., wired and wireless) communications networks that require the development of new transport, routing and MAC layer protocols. This level of complexity requires the use of simulation techniques to fully quantify achievable performance on an end-to-end basis. This session will cover the following topics: performance of evolving MANET protocols, simulation runtime performance, alternative simulation tools and methods, end to end communication network performance, performance of heterogeneous networks, etc.
Mr. Comparetto is a Senior Principal Engineer in the Network and Communications Engineering Center in the MITRE Washington C3 division. Over the past several years, Mr. Comparetto has focused on the area of Modeling and Simulation, with application to mobile ad-hoc terrestrial and SATCOM networks. His primary interests include communications network performance, SATCOM link analysis, and waveform design. Prior to this, Mr. Comparetto was General Manager of Radio Dynamics Corporation where he had technical oversight over all engineering activities related to satellite systems. In this role, Mr. Comparetto supported the development of a novel approach to quantify the impact of signal interference from Mobile Satellite Service systems to fixed service receivers in the 2165 to 2200 MHz frequency regime. Mr. Comparetto has also held key positions at M/A-COM Linkabit and Stanford Telecommunications Corporations and has extensive experience working with the full range of commercial and military satellite communications systems.