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This is a wiki page for MANET special-interest area, maintained by Tracy Camp, MANET Area Editor for CRAWDAD. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact Tracy < tcamp -AT- mines -DOT- edu>

MANET Area Editor

Dr. Tracy Camp has been appointed MANET (Mobile Ad hoc NETworking) Area Editor for the CRAWDAD project. Her job is to search for MANET data sets that would be of interest to other researchers. She will also collect software tools that can help researchers use MANET data sets or take MANET measurements.

If you have any MANET data sets (or tools to help process MANET data), we encourage you to contact Tracy to discuss contributing these to CRAWDAD.

Short Bio: Tracy Camp is a Professor of Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines. She is the Director of Toilers, an active research group in self-organizing networks. She has received 12 grants from NSF, including a CAREER award in 1997. This funding has produced 11 software packages which have been requested from (and shared with) more than 700 researchers in 49 countries (as of June 2006). She has published over 50 refereed articles which have been cited, as of August 2006, over 1200 times (per Google Scholar). She has been on the program committee of several conferences, including MobiCom, ICDCS, WCNC, ICPADS, AdHocNow, VANET, and MSN. Dr. Camp is a member of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal editorial board, and the elected Treasurer of ACM's Special Interest Group on Mobile Computing (SIGMOBILE). Dr. Camp recently returned from New Zealand, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.

http://www.mines.edu/fs_home/tcamp/

http://toilers.mines.edu

MANET Testbeds

The following lists the MANET testbeds for which we are aware. If you know of an ad hoc network testbed not on this list, please let Tracy know. We are in the process of contacting the researchers associated with these testbeds, to see if they have any data that would be of interest to other researchers. If yes, we will incorporate the data into CRAWDAD and make a note of the data on this page.

Notes: The development of this document is in progress. If you have answers to any of the questions listed, please contact Tracy. The testbeds listed in each section are in no particular order.

ORBIT: Open-Access Research Testbed for Next-Generation Wireless Networks

http://www.orbit-lab.org/

The purpose of the ORBIT testbed is to evaluate next-generation wireless network protocols. The testbed is available for use, either via remote or on-site access, for almost all research and educational projects. ORBIT consists of an indoor radio grid emulator and an outdoor field trial network:

The indoor radio grid emulator:

The outdoor field trial network:

On each wireless node, there are two mini-PCI 802.11 a/b/g interface cards. Future plans include adding USB-based Bluetooth and Zygbee interfaces.

The ORBIT emulator supports virtual grid mobility. The grid mobility can support discrete versions of several commonly used mobility models, such as Brownian motion or the random waypoint model.

Current status of testbed: in active development.

Scalable Testbed for Next Generation Wireless Networking Technologies (WHYNET)

http://chenyen.cs.ucla.edu/projects/whynet/

WHYNET is a hybrid (emulation, simulation, and physical) testbed, which was developed to evaluate next-generation wireless protocols in a realistic and scalable manner. More details on the testbeds (MANET and VANET) are "coming soon".

WHYNET is a collaboration of faculty at five University of California campuses (UCLA, UCSB, UCR, UCD, and UCSD), University of Southern California, and University of Delaware.

Current status of testbed: in active development.

Ad hoc Protocol Evaluation (APE) Testbed

http://apetestbed.sourceforge.net/

The goal of APE is to simplify the process of performing real-world tests on MANETs. The APE distribution contains

Current status of testbed: in active development

Network Research Testbed (NRT) at UCLA

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/ST/testbeds.html

This ad hoc network testbed consists of about 20 laptops and 60 PDAs with IEEE 802.11 cards. Several ad hoc network protocols have been implemented in NRT, including:

Current status of testbed: ??

Wireless Ad-hoc Testbed (WAT) at University of Surrey, UK

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CCSR/facilities/networks/wat.html

At the University of Surrey, the Centre for Communication Systems Research has a small ad hoc network testbed which is used to evaluate the performance of applications and services targeted for MANETs.

WAT consists of

A Java-based MANET emulator has been implemented to emulate mobility, allowing the devices to be easily interconnected in various topologies.

Current status of testbed: project (most likely) finished

Sydney Networks and Communications Lab

At the Motorola Australia Research Centre, two MANET routing protocols (AODV and DSDV) were implemented in a testbed. The testbed consisted of

The network was configured to obtain four hops between the nodes in the testbed. The testbed and the experimental observations are described in: Kwan-Wu Chin, John Judge, Aidan Williams, and Roger Kermode. Implementation experience with MANET routing protocols. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, Volume 32, Number 5, pages 49-59, November 2002.

Current status of testbed: ??

CMU Monarch Testbed

From August 1998 to February 1999, CMU researchers designed and implemented a full-scale physical testbed to evaluate the performance of an ad hoc network in the field. The network consisted of:

The following two papers describe this testbed project:

David A. Maltz, Josh Broch, and David B. Johnson. Lessons from a full-scale multihop wireless ad hoc network testbed. IEEE Personal Communications, Volume 8, Issue 1, page 8-15, Feb 2001.

David A. Maltz, Josh Broch, and David B. Johnson. Experiences designing and building a multi-hop wireless ad hoc network testbed. CMU-CS-99-116, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, March 1999.

http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/usr/anon/1999/CMU-CS-99-116.pdf

Current status of testbed: project finished.

VANET Testbeds

To be added ...

UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) Testbeds

At the present time, we do not plan to incorporate UAV testbeds into this list. If interest exists, we will change our plans. As an example, see the Ad Hoc UAV Ground Network (AUGNet) project at University of Colorado, Boulder: http://augnet.colorado.edu/.