Building Highly Dynamic Battlefield Network Infrastructure for Boeing U.S. Army Future Combat Systems Using JXTA Technology
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The open source Project JXTA is an industry-leading peer-to-peer (P2P) platform originally conceived by Sun Microsystems, Inc., and designed with the participation of a growing number of experts from industry and research and academic institutions. JXTA technology establishes a virtual peer-to-peer network overlay on top of the Internet and non-IP networks, allowing peers to directly interact and self-organize independently of their physical network connectivity and location. JXTA technology envisions a world in which each peer, independent of software and hardware platform, can benefit from being connected to millions of other peers through the formation of a multitude of ad hoc and transient virtual domains.

This session gives an overview of the use of JXTA technology by Boeing for the U.S. Army multi-billion-dollar Future Combat Systems (FCS). The requirements for a highly resilient and highly scalable integrated network infrastructure that combines virtually any devices in a battlefield environment - including UVA, sensors, soldiers, tanks, planes, missiles, and satellites - demanded a fully decentralized network infrastructure.

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