SOURCES SOUGHT
99 -- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FOR MODEM LINK PROPERTY ADVERTISEMENT
- Notice Date
- 4/8/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334210
— Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Glenn Research Center, 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44135
- ZIP Code
- 44135
- Solicitation Number
- RFI2011Ivancic
- Response Due
- 6/1/2011
- Archive Date
- 4/8/2012
- Point of Contact
- Dawn R Pottinger, Contracting Officer, Phone 216-433-5063, Fax 216-433-2480, Email dawn.r.pottinger@nasa.gov - William D Ivancic, Research Electronics Engineer, Phone 216-433-3494, Fax 216-433-8000, Email william.d.ivancic@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Dawn R Pottinger
(dawn.r.pottinger@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA/GRC is hereby soliciting information about potential sources for the ModemLink Property Advertisement. We are interested in knowing if vendors have the capabilityto address the Modem Link Property Advertisement elements specified herein and inreceiving comments on the specifications and estimated costs of such a result.This document is for information and planning purposes ONLY and to allow industry theopportunity to verify reasonableness and feasibility of the requirement, as well aspromote competition. Prospective offerors are invited to submit written comments or questions via e-mail or postal mail to: William Ivancic and Dawn Pottinger, no later than June 1, 2011.Please reference RFI-2011-Ivancic in the e-mail subject line or mailing address of anyresponses or submissions.Vendors having the capabilities necessary to meet or exceed the stated requirements areinvited to submit appropriate documentation, literature brochures, and references,Because this information is sought for future planning purposes, potential offerors arerequested to provide price estimates, if possible. These estimates may be general innature and will be solely used for budget planning and other general informationalpurposes.Please advise if the requirement is considered to be a commercial or commercial-typeproduct, as defined in FAR 2.101.Technical questions should be directed via e-mail to William Ivancic.Procurement questions should be directed via e-mail to Dawn Pottinger.This Request For Information (RFI)/sources sought synopsis is for informational andplanning purposes and SHALL not be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor willthe Government pay for the information solicited and submitted in response to this RFI.Respondents will not be notified of the results.The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over theInternet. These documents will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may beaccessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/GRCBusiness Opportunities home page related to this RFI ishttp://procurement.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=22#145960 NO solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of a solicitation. If asolicitation is released related to this matter, it would be synopsized in FedBizOpps andon the NASA Acquisition Internet Services. It is the potential offerors responsibility tomonitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis.Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.RFI-2011-Ivancic: NASA/GRC Request for Information and Comments on Modem Link PropertyAdvertisement. THIS IS NOT A NOTICE OF SOLICIATION. IT IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)ONLY.Send information/literature/qualification statement no later than June 1, 2011 to thee-mail or postal address as provided herein. NASA does not intend to award a contractbased on this information. This RFI is to seek interest and participation in developing astandard method and associated protocol to enable routers and applications toautonomously adjust to changing radio characteristics.Devices and associated applications are increasingly connected to a variety of smartmodems that have dynamically varying link characteristics. For example, incoming andoutgoing link rates can be varied over time with adaptive coding and modulation to suitthe channel characteristics. In addition, those links may go up and down due to a varietyof factors. The link rate and conditions offered by the modem to connected devices andassociated applications therefore vary. In order to autonomously condition traffic, aform of cognitive networking, and get the most out of the modem's link capacity, theupstream devices and applications need to be informed of the modem's link conditions.A number of potential solutions have been proposed oriented toward router/modeminteractions:1) RFC-5578, PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) Extensions for Credit Flow and LinkMetrics2) Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP) (draft-ietf-manet-dlep-00)3) Link properties advertisement from modem to router (draft-wood-dna-linkproperties-advertisement-01)These solutions do not necessarily address devices and associated applications that maybe multiple network hops away from the modem. The problem definition is contained indocument, Modem Link Property Advertisement, that has been place on the Web for easyaccess and be obtained at the following URL:http://roland.grc.nasa.gov/~ivancic/papers_presentations/2011/Modem_LPA.pdf Whereas NASA is a consumer rather than a producer of smart modems, and hasexperienced the need to have applications dynamically adjust to downstream radiocharacteristics, NASA is seeking interest in collaborating with modem and routerproducers to develop a standardized solution.Reminder: Please reference RFI-2011-Ivancic in the subject line or mailing line of anyresponses or submissions.1. Information Submittal Instructions: Please send relevant literature and information tothe following: Technical Point of Contact E-mail address: william.d.ivancic@nasa.govPlease use subject line identifier: RFI-2011-IvancicIf submitting by mail, please address as follows:NASA-Glenn Research Center Attn: William D. Ivancic, M/S 54-1 Subject: RFI-2011-Ivancic21000 Brookpark Road Cleveland, OH 44135-3191 (216) 433-3494Contractual Point of Contact E-mail address: dawn.r.pottinger@nasa.gov Please use subject line identifier: RFI-2011-IvancicIf submitting by mail, please address as follows:Subject: RFI-2011-IvancicDawn R. Pottinger, MS: 60-1 Contracting Officer, GRC Procurement Division Research and Space Operations Branch (CHB)NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field 21000 Brookpark Road. Cleveland, OH 44135 2. Such information shall include electronic file in either text, Microsoft Word, PDF orPostscript (PDF is preferred) with your comments. As part of your information package,please include company Technical Point(s) of Contact including address, telephone numberand e-mail address.3. The information received from this RFI is expected to be used by NASA to determinewhether or not there is sufficient interest to standardize on a solution and if so, toestablish a working group to develop a solution. NOTE: Those wishing to keep theirresponses confidential SHALL state so in BOLD TYPE LETTERS at the beginning of theirresponse using the following wording: Confidential or Limited distribution. Please donot disclose outside of the US Government.THIS RFI IS ISSUED SOLELY FOR INFORMATION AND PLANNING PURPOSES. THIS SYNOPSIS SHALL NOTBE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT, NOR WILL THE GOVERNMENT PAY FOR THEINFORMATION SOLICITATED. RESPONDERS WILL NOT BE NOTIFIED OF ANY REVIEWS RESULTING FROMTHIS RFI.
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