As military, academic, and commercial computing systems evolve from autonomous entities that deliver products into network centric enterprise as a service, opportunities emerge to consolidate resources, software, information through cloud computing. Along with these come challenges, particularly service providers operations centers struggle monitor manage quality of (QoS) for services in order meet customer commitments. Traditional approaches fall short addressing challenges because they...

As enterprise computing transforms to accommodate network centric (net-centric) systems and services, comprehensive monitoring capabilities for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based applications are critical in order unite business requirements with emerging technologies. These enable operators service providers observe proactive ly respond events that occur during deployment operation of systems. This paper presents a novel approach SOA applied these Metrics presented along an framework...

The increasing frequency, rising costs, and growing sophistication of cyber attacks on DoD, agency commercial enterprise systems are dramatically reducing the quality end-user services compromising mission effectiveness. Of those attacks, one more severe is Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) through which an attacker can disrupt, possibly shutdown, local network enclaves global net-centric systems. Previous attempts to overcome this threat include intrusion detection prevention (IDS/IPS),...

Advances in sensor observation and collection technology, coupled with the use of multiple sensors distributed amongst transport platforms to support a single mission; create potentially crippling problem data overload for DoD operators imagery video analysts as they strive provide processing, exploitation, dissemination (PED) end-user (i.e., warfighter). These depend on data, specifically Intelligence, Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) perform time-critical mission functions such target...

Within an enterprise system, there exist many specific service-based metrics that apply to end-to-end monitoring and management of information. To assist network operators service providers in understanding end user issues, it is helpful group related together into larger metric categories. This paper addresses the lack consistent meaningful terminology for operations personnel who manage systems running multiple protocols over a diverse set multi-technology components must implement...

As military, academic, and commercial computing systems evolve from autonomous entities that deliver products into network centric enterprise as a service, opportunities emerge to consolidate resources, software information through cloud computing. Along with these come challenges, especially service providers operations centers struggle monitor manage Quality of Service (QoS) for services in order meet customer commitments. Traditional approaches fall short addressing challenges because...

Disparate customer support centers in an enterprise system apply different monitoring and analysis tools while attempting to ensure quality of service for the end-user. These provide inconsistent metrics that make problem resolution inefficient reactive rather than proactive effective. A systems engineering approach is proposed considers high-speed communications done by via collaboration isolation. This paper presents graphical representations various aspects include architectural,...

Faced with intense competition, network service providers, supported by their respective operations centers (NOCs), must ensure the best possible quality of (QoS) and corresponding experience (QoE) for end-users or face loss business. QoE represents perception experienced a real-time system, such as VoIP. The challenge becomes significant when applications running on net-centric enterprise systems, driven methodologies oriented architecture (SOA), encounter issues that require time-sensitive...

Department of Defense (DoD) intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets; including manned unmanned airborne, space-borne, maritime, terrestrial systems; play critical roles in support current future military operations. However, services defense agencies face an ever growing challenge effectively processing, exploiting, disseminating ISR data from multiple, diverse senor platforms for end-users who collaborate share information within a net-centric enterprise environment....

Manpower is driving up DoD costs while budgets are shrinking; therefore the customer seeks a solution to enable increased mission capacity along with staff reductions. One way accomplish this through an autonomous capability support end-to-end activities. The Mission Information Autonomous Intelligent Decision Engine (MiAide) approach for meeting objective create system of systems (SoS) that work together automation tasks previously done by humans. MiAide built upon novel, but...

A robustly engineered monitoring and measurement capability provides comprehensive timely performance information that allows broadband network operators service providers to observe proactively respond events occur during deployment operation of their respective networks. As complexity increases, so do the requirements for ensure high-quality internal external customers. methodology complex networks is presented. This includes a framework reference architecture, essential metrics categories...

This special theme issue of IEEE Potentials introduces the rapidly evolving area data analytics, which encompasses analysis, fusion, storage, sources, infrastructure and technology, screening filtering algorithms, machine learning, complexity. An emergent technology from analytics is big-data defined by Gartner IT Glossary as "high-volume, high-velocity and/or high-variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms processing enable enhanced insight, decision making,...

Emerging high-speed network systems are capable of transporting and delivering data at rates faster than hardware software components can economically process them. The result is overflow in which performance information that critical for effective system monitoring management may be lost, thereby leaving the vulnerable to quality service degradation provider unable meet customer level agreements. Service providers seek a solution this problem minimizes amount high-speed, high-cost...

Small satellites (Small Sats) (i.e., weighing less than 100 kg) are attracting interest in the Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC) and commercial market for space-based data collection (e.g., imaging) communication links or relays). In fact, many emerging missions use constellations greater 100) Sats these purposes. can be used communications, space situational awareness, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR). Advantages over larger military include cost...

A robustly engineered end-to-end enterprise monitoring (E2E-EM) capability is the key to success for complex systems as they transform provide highest level of service assurance under Network Operations (NetOps) supporting global net-centric solutions across a service-oriented architecture. This paper presents an E2E-EM framework established part effort sponsored by Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) develop set guidelines, goals which are governed transformational tenets. To provider...

In this article, a new adaptable mission analysis and decisions system (AMADS) that couples data analytics with DES to support decision making for multiple, broad areas is presented. This article also introduces approach deriving the probability of success courses action taken within these extends into time domain by applying Bayesian statistics DES. allows random sampling input distributions and, through iterative computation, provides Monte Carlo which derive confidence intervals probabilities.

High speed communications systems using optical media are capable of transporting and delivering data at faster rates than electronic components can economically process them. The result is overflow in which performance information that critical for effective enterprise system monitoring management may be lost, thereby leaving the vulnerable to quality service degradation provider unable meet customer level agreements. Service providers seek a solution this problem minimizes amount...

In today's budget constrained environment the DoD, government agencies, and commercial businesses are seeking ways to maximize resource usage and, thereby, improve mission capacity without increasing spending. Communications is one major area that offers opportunities for such improvement. particular, mobile communications capabilities enable establishment of connectively an existing infrastructure, especially in emergency situations. Aerial platforms, as unmanned aerial systems (UASs), have...

Real-time voice communications capabilities over wireless medium, using the Wi-Fi standard IEEE 802.11, have become a potential bottleneck in emerging net-centric enterprise systems used by DoD and Federal Government agencies. Depending on priority precedence of particular message, mission success may depend achieving optimal performance with respect to transmission, reception, interpretation message. This paper explores successful messages from end user perspective as defined through metric...

Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is a proven methodology that enables the effective combination of modeling and mathematics. DES has been used for many applications ranging from aeronautics to health care transportation. In this paper, we apply novel architecture dynamically adaptable support decision making multiple diverse mission areas (i.e., missile defense, cyber offense, remote object recognition location). This paper also advances traditional probabilistic solutions these by extending...

Within a cost-constrained economic environment, the DoD, government agencies, and commercial businesses seek to maximize mission capacity by sharing services across segments over an integrated infrastructure using common control system. To accomplish this goal, new technique is required orchestrate execution of existing emerging services. The Dynamic Mission Services Orchestrator (DMSO) provides architecture, realized through novel algorithm, application in both near-real-time real-time...

This is a practitioner paper focused on the real problem of effectively communicating within distributed and disaggregated multi-domain battlespace operational environments. To do so, communications systems must be adaptive in response to ever-changing on-mission events such as, network congestion (e.g., degraded comms links excessive traffic), enemy interference jamming, cyber-attacks), line Sight degradation weather conditions). These challenges cause networks drop packets, presently they...

Fiber optic transmission media can deliver broadband network performance measurement data at a rate faster than economically available electronics components process them. Commercial implementations seek to limit the amount of high-speed, high-cost needed recognize parameters in bit stream passing monitoring point. A means is presented here for transforming these finite state recognizers into new machines that perform same function but operate slower speed implementation reconfigurable...

This paper presents a procedure for information collection on high-speed, high-bandwidth communication systems to enable network management. Such transport large quantities of data at rates that inhibit user interpretation and response and, therefore, effective allows the recognize patterns importance amidst plethora available so relevant content may be filtered reduced "information " acted upon quickly meet customer service requirements. A concrete example is provided demonstrate an...