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An adaptive, distributed airborne tracking sysem

Process the right tracks at the right time

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Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS 1999)

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This paper describes a United States Air Force Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) that applied value-based scheduling to produce an adaptive, distributed tracking component appropriate for consideration by the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) program. This tracker was designed to evaluate application-specific Quality of Service (QoS) metrics to quantify its tracking services in a dynamic environment and to derive scheduling parameters directly from these QoS metrics to control tracker behavior. The prototype tracker was implemented on the MK7 operating system, which provided native value-based processor scheduling and a distributed thread programming abstraction. The prototype updates all of the tracked-object records when the system is not overloaded, and gracefully degrades when it is. The prototype has performed extremenly well during demonstrations to AWACS operator and tracking system designers. Quantitative results are presented.

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  1. The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA

    Raymond Clark, E. Douglas Jensen, Arkady Kanevsky, John Maurer, Paul Wallace, Thomas Wheeler & Yun Zhang

  2. The Open Group Research Institute, Woburn, MA, USA

    Douglas Wells

  3. Air Force Research Laboratory/IFGA, 13441, Rome, NY, USA

    Tom Lawrence & Pat Hurley

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José Rolim Frank Mueller Albert Y. Zomaya Fikret Ercal Stephan Olariu Binoy Ravindran Jan Gustafsson Hiroaki Takada Ron Olsson Laxmikant V. Kale Pete Beckman Matthew Haines Hossam ElGindy Denis Caromel Serge Chaumette Geoffrey Fox Yi Pan Keqin Li Tao Yang G. Chiola G. Conte L. V. Mancini Domenique Méry Beverly Sanders Devesh Bhatt Viktor Prasanna

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Clark, R. et al. (1999). An adaptive, distributed airborne tracking sysem. In: Rolim, J., et al. Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPPS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1586. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0097917

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