Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Research Goals and Objectives
Interoperability Testing of VoIP protocols and equipment
Develop - Applications over VoIP
Evaluate - CODEC Performance | Networks and Protocols | QoS, NAT | implications
Test - VoIP over wireless | Traffic volume impacts
Legacy Time Division Switches
Research Goals and Objectives
Interoperability Testing of VoIP protocols and equipment
Develop - Test techniques
Evaluate - Evaluate SS7 capabilities
Test - Interoperability
Optical Test Bed
Research Goals and Objectives
Net dynamic traffic balancing and reconfiguration
Net protection (link, node, service)
Physical layer studies and security
Fault management (link, node, service)
Network Topologies
Research Goals and Objectives
Develop - Mesh Ring topologies
Integrate - with FSO and wireless
Evaluate - Traffic, switching, protection
Test - Efficiency and performance
Photonics Area
Research Goals and Objectives
Photonic devices, components, and sub-systems for optical communications and information processing.
Develop - Free-space optical communications
Advanced display technologies, analog fiber optics for avionics applications, and optical security techniques.
Evaluate - Effects of optical interference on free-space optical communications
Suitability of wavelength-division-multiplexing techniques for high-bandwidth analog signal transmission.
Test - RF & optical spectrum analysis; optical polarization analysis; optical power measurement; waveform analysis
