ActComm Project on Transportable Agents and Wireless Networks

Abstract : The goal of the ActComm project is to develop technologies that will maximize the usability of complex, global computer and communications networks for modern command-and-control applications. The focus of the project is on wireless networks. The main technical innovation is the concept of an active communications system. An active communications system consists of dynamic elements: active software, active information, active hybrid networks, and active resource allocation. These active elements are introduced to make future military wireless computer and communications networks more robust, more powerful, and more flexible under a wide variety of operating environments. Active elements will be coordinated by a novel architecture that uses advanced agents to manage network, computer, and information assets delivering high confidence communications and computing. This document lists 50 publications that resulted from this project, graduate and undergraduate students who were supported by this project in FY 2001, 39 presentations that were made by ActComm participants in FY 2001, agencies and organizations that served as consultants to the project, and other DoD projects related to ActComm.