A Functional Approach to Distributed Network Architectures for LVC
(Room 320C)
02 Dec 19
2:30 PM
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4:00 PM
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Full Schedule, Monday Schedule
Recent innovations within the networking industry are converging to greatly enhance the distributed simulation environment and set the foundation for achieving the full LVC objective state. Future distributed network architectures leverage hardware innovations that include converged compute, storage, and transport management functions and device virtualization that allows a single device to perform multiple roles i.e. routing, switching, and security appliances. Innovation in network and security operations include advances in software defined networking, development of agile identity and access management, and the incorporation of real-time network and security policy compliance and application performance visibility functions. Further, the use of National Security Agency approved Commercial Solutions for Classified voice and data transport simplify implementation of multi-level security operations inherent in distributed simulation and LVC. Emerging network architectures and evolving operating practices create operational effects at a lower capital and operating cost. Resource utilization can be dynamically adjusted to suit the function at hand. During a simulation sequence, load surges can be distributed via to ensure quality of service required to achieve the realism demanded as hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of entities interact within physics-based models.Automation and real-time security policy implementation support live, virtual, and constructive entity pairings in large-scale sessions. Automation is key to access and security policy compliance assurance that is a prerequisite for dynamically paired entity interactions taking place simultaneously on multiple levels including flight or ground path interaction, multi-spectrum signature representation, multi-spectrum detection representation, and multi-spectrum weapons and countermeasure interaction characteristics.The future LVC network environment will effectively resemble a highly distributed high-performance computing center. Multiple networks will join together on a session basis to support high intensity, many-to-many interactions on multiple, segregated classification planes. In this environment, assuring the moment-by-moment integrity of the architecture and computational operations through multi-epoch scenarios is a must. Both are possible with visibility functions that continuously run checks and balances verifying the integrity of the simulation.