ITC/USA 2013 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Ninth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 21-24, 2013 / Bally's Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV / During a recent U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) ground test, an unexpected change in test location resulted in the implementation of an innovative ad hoc network solution to complete the planned test matrix. The original plan was to use an aircraft ground test facility; however, safety requirements resulted in the aircraft being placed 50 meters away from the facility. This distance was too great to use the existing connections; consequently, data collection and analysis were adversely affected until this time expedient solution was implemented.

Last year, the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) faced a short suspense requirement to instrument an Apache's Ethernet bus. YPG was able to implement an effective method to satisfy this requirement; however, more capable and effective methodologies could not be developed and utilized due to time constraints. While continuing to support ongoing Apache testing, YPG is working to implement more efficient methods to capture and utilize the Ethernet data. This paper will discuss YPG’s initial implementation and the follow-on efforts being pursued.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 21, 2002 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / The advent of COTS based network-centric data systems brings a whole new vocabulary into the realm of instrumentation. The Communications and computer industries have developed networks to a high level and they continue to evolve. One of the basic techniques that has proven itself useful with this technology is the use of a “layered architecture.” This paper is an attempt to discuss the basic ideas behind this concept and to give some understanding of the vocabulary that has grown up with it.

ITC/USA 2014 Conference Proceedings / The Fiftieth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 20-23, 2014 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CA / Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) personnel developed the Video Bus Integrated Telemetry System (VBITS) for air delivery testing at YPG. The system consists of a common rack for mounting both video and telemetry equipment, which makes installation easier and more time efficient. Prior to the one-rack concept, the video, TSPI, and telemetry were all installed as separate entities competing for space, power, and time. Requirements to downlink High-Definition (HD) video from the aircraft prompted research into technological improvements in transmitters, onboard encoders, and recorders. These advances allowed the integration of video, analog sensors, and aircraft bus data into a single telemetry stream. Future advancements will include combining multiple HD video sources in a single downlink.

Developers widely use actor frameworks to build highly distributed systems. However, modern actor frameworks are limited in their network implementations, with Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) being the main protocols used for network communication. This thesis investigates the use of specialized network protocols to improve the performance of actor frameworks in distributed systems. Message-passing, while commonly based on TCP, needs more performance and security than other protocols; therefore, the focus will be on different low-latency transport protocols that could substitute TCP. This work examines actor communication at the transport layer, considering the constraints of the deployment that often dictate the choice of a transport protocol. We explore how Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC), a low-latency transport protocol, affects actor systems performance and reliability by investigating the benefits of replacing TCP with QUIC in Kompact, a component-actor hybrid framework. We provide an overview of other low-latency protocols that fit various actor frameworks and implement QUIC in the networking layer of Kompact. Thereof, we evaluate the performance of QUIC, UDP and TCP in two different scenarios, such as file transfers outside of actor systems and ping-pong latency measurements within Kompact. The results show that glsquic outperforms TCP for larger file transfers outside actor systems, accomplishing higher throughput and faster download times. However, in the Kompact benchmark, QUIC did not outperform TCP due to issues with QUIC’s event loop implementation. The study also highlights the importance of proper synchronization between event loops in distributed systems. The findings suggest that QUIC has the potential to improve performance and reliability in actor systems by reducing latency and enhancing reliability through features such as multiplexing and connection migration. / Utvecklare använder i stor utsträckning actor-ramverk för att bygga väldigt distribuerade system. Moderna actor-ramverk är dock begränsade i sina nätverksimplementationer, med TCP och UDP som de huvudsakliga protokollen för nätverkskommunikation. Denna avhandling undersöker användningen av specialiserade nätverksprotokoll för att förbättra prestandan hos actor-ramverk i distribuerade system. Meddelandehantering, som vanligtvis är baserad på TCP, kräver högre prestanda och säkerhet än andra protokoll. Därför kommer fokus att ligga på olika låg-latens transportprotokoll som kan ersätta TCP. Denna undersökning undersöker actor-kommunikation på transportlagret, med hänsyn till de begränsningar som ofta dikterar valet av transportprotokoll. Vi utforskar hur QUIC, ett låg-latens transportprotokoll, påverkar prestanda och tillförlitlighet i actor-system genom att undersöka fördelarna med att ersätta TCP med QUIC i Kompact, ett komponent-actor hybrid-ramverk. Vi ger en översikt över andra låg-latens protokoll som passar olika actor-ramverk och implementerar QUIC i nätverkslagret av Kompact. Därigenom utvärderar vi prestandan för QUIC, UDP och TCP i två olika scenarier, såsom filöverföringar utanför actor-system och ping-pong-latensmätningar inomKompact. Resultaten visar att QUIC överträffar TCP för större filöverföringar utanför actor-system, uppnår högre genomströmning och snabbare nedladdningstider. Men i Kompact-benchmarken överträffade QUIC inte TCP på grund av problem med QUICs event-loop-implementering. Studien belyser också vikten av korrekt synkronisering mellan event-loops i distribuerade system. Resultaten antyder att QUIC har potential att förbättra prestanda och tillförlitlighet i actor-system genom att minska latens och förbättra tillförlitligheten genom funktioner som multiplexing och anslutningsmigration.

This work covers the implementation of a raw Ethernet communication module for the Open MPI message passing library. Thereby it focuses on both the reduction of the communication latency for small messages and maximum possible compatibility. Especially the need for particular network devices, adapted network device drivers or kernel patches is avoided. The work is divided into three major parts: First, the networking subsystem of the version 2.6 Linux kernel is analyzed. Second, an Ethernet protocol family is implemented as a loadable kernel module, consisting of a basic datagram protocol (EDP), providing connection-less and unreliable datagram transport, and a streaming protocol (ESP), providing connection-oriented, sequenced and reliable byte streams. The protocols use the standard device driver interface of the Linux kernel for data transmission and reception. Their services are made available to user-space applications through the standard socket interface. Last, the existing Open MPI TCP communication module is ported atop the ESP. With bare EDP/ESP sockets a message latency of about 30 us could be achieved for small messages, which compared to the TCP latency of about 40 us is a reduction of 25 %.

Denial of service attacks (DoS) are a common threat to many online services. These attacks aim to overcome the availability of an online service with massive traffic from multiple sources. By spoofing legitimate users, an attacker floods a target system with a high quantity of packets or connections to crash its network resources, bandwidth, equipment, or servers. Packet filtering methods are the most known way to prevent these attacks via identifying and blocking the spoofed attack from reaching its target. In this project, the extent of the DoS attacks problem and attempts to prevent it are explored. The attacks categories and existing countermeasures based on preventing, detecting, and responding are reviewed. Henceforward, a neural network learning algorithms and statistical analysis are utilized into the designing of our proposed packet filtering system.

This work covers the implementation of a raw Ethernet communication module for the Open MPI message passing library. Thereby it focuses on both the reduction of the communication latency for small messages and maximum possible compatibility. Especially the need for particular network devices, adapted network device drivers or kernel patches is avoided. The work is divided into three major parts: First, the networking subsystem of the version 2.6 Linux kernel is analyzed. Second, an Ethernet protocol family is implemented as a loadable kernel module, consisting of a basic datagram protocol (EDP), providing connection-less and unreliable datagram transport, and a streaming protocol (ESP), providing connection-oriented, sequenced and reliable byte streams. The protocols use the standard device driver interface of the Linux kernel for data transmission and reception. Their services are made available to user-space applications through the standard socket interface. Last, the existing Open MPI TCP communication module is ported atop the ESP. With bare EDP/ESP sockets a message latency of about 30 us could be achieved for small messages, which compared to the TCP latency of about 40 us is a reduction of 25 %.

Thema dieser Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines Kommunikationsteilsystems fuer das Experimentiersystem CHEOPS zur Ermoeglichung einer Interobjektkommunika- tion zwischen Objekten auf dem gleichen bzw. verschiedenen Systemen. Ausgangspunkte stellen dabei eine verfuegbare Implementation eines Ethernet- Treibers der Kartenfamilie WD80x3 fuer MS-DOS, eine geforderte Kommunikations- moeglichkeit mit UNIX-Prozessen sowie die dort benutzbaren Protokoll-Familien dar. Die Arbeit beschaeftigt sich mit der Analyse und Konzipierung des Ethernet- Treibers sowie der Internet-Protokoll-Familie fuer CHEOPS als auch deren Implementation resultierend in einem minimalen Grundsystem. Weiterhin wird ein erster Entwurf fuer ein spaeter weiterzuentwickelndes bzw. zu vervoll- staendigendes Netz-Interface vorgeschlagen und durch eine Beispiel-Implemen- tierung belegt.

Thema dieser Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines Kommunikationsteilsystems fuer das Experimentiersystem CHEOPS zur Ermoeglichung einer Interobjektkommunika- tion zwischen Objekten auf dem gleichen bzw. verschiedenen Systemen. Ausgangspunkte stellen dabei eine verfuegbare Implementation eines Ethernet- Treibers der Kartenfamilie WD80x3 fuer MS-DOS, eine geforderte Kommunikations- moeglichkeit mit UNIX-Prozessen sowie die dort benutzbaren Protokoll-Familien dar. Die Arbeit beschaeftigt sich mit der Analyse und Konzipierung des Ethernet- Treibers sowie der Internet-Protokoll-Familie fuer CHEOPS als auch deren Implementation resultierend in einem minimalen Grundsystem. Weiterhin wird ein erster Entwurf fuer ein spaeter weiterzuentwickelndes bzw. zu vervoll- staendigendes Netz-Interface vorgeschlagen und durch eine Beispiel-Implemen- tierung belegt.