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Back Operations Research Analysis to Support the Assessment of the Scalability of Service Oriented Architecture

Fiscal Year 2009
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Operations Research
Investigator(s) Gaver, Jr., Donald P.
Jacobs, Patricia A.
Sponsor Chief of Naval Operations, N61, N6132D (Navy)
Summary Current Navy communication networks consist of many users, servers, routers, switches, and communication lines. Many subsets of users have their own dedicated servers and have their own software; i.e. have their own clients/server networks. This client/server architecture is expensive to update and maintain. The DOD has started investigating implementation of a distributed communication architecture that will support self-connecting networks. One such distributed communication architecture is service-oriented architecture (SOA). The architecture will use a common message protocol to communicate between the different servers, thus allowing different servers to communicate with each other even if their operating systems, etc. are different. The promise is that this type of network architecture will eventually be less expensive to update and maintain, and also be faster, with greater security and traffic-handling capacity.
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