Quality of Service in us air force information management systems

Warfighters in today´s asymmetric engagements need access to mission-critical information no matter when and where it becomes available. Information Management Services (IMSs) based on publish-subscribe-query services have emerged as an important enabler of tactical information dominance in combined tactical and enterprise military situations. IMSs support information brokering and dissemination between decoupled information producers and consumers, for both future (publish-subscribe) and historical (publish-archive-query) information. To support operations in dynamic environments, IMSs require Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities to ensure prioritized delivery of mission-critical information, to mediate conflicting demands for information brokering and dissemination resources in constrained situations, and to adapt IMS operations to changing missions, roles, and priorities. This paper describes a set of QoS management services, QoS Enabled Dissemination (QED), that provide policy driven, dynamic, aggregate QoS management across the users of IMSs. The paper describes the QED prototype implementation and experimental results illustrating the improvement of QED over a non-QoS enabled IMS baseline.