12) End-to-End Quality-of-Service Engineering for Heterogeneous Military C5I Traffic Across Optical and IP/MPLS Networks

ABSTRACT

This study develops a defense-oriented framework for end-to-end quality-of-service engineering for heterogeneous military c5i traffic across optical and ip/mpls networks within an integrated military C5I environment. The research addresses the engineering problem of maintaining mission information advantage when physical infrastructure, optical transport, IP/MPLS connectivity, compute, data, cybersecurity, and operational services become dynamically constrained. The proposed method combines systems engineering, dependency modeling, quantitative resilience metrics, AI-assisted analytics, and controlled degradation/reconfiguration. To support reproducibility, the manuscript defines a synthetic 2026 experiment model, explicit assumptions, baselines, sensitivity analysis, and a laboratory validation pathway. The study is deliberately structured so that synthetic results can later be replaced by measured testbed results without changing the research architecture.