1. Field Teams and Wireless Networks
Dartmouth
Field Teams and
Wireless Networks
Dartmouth
College
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The ActComm Project
ActComm = Active Communications
Joint Project
George Cybenko, Dartmouth College
Bob Gray, Dartmouth College
David Kotz, Dartmouth College
Susan McGrath, Dartmouth College
Daniela Rus, Dartmouth College
H. T. Kung, Harvard University
Ken Vastola, RPI
Gul Agha, University of Illinois
Tamer Basar, University of Illinois
P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois
Ken Whitebread, Lockheed Martin
Jody Daniels, Lockheed Martin
Alan Evans, ALPHATECH
Main transition vehicle for the Dartmouth CoABS work
Part of the CoAX TIE
Ease of making a large “legacy” system interoperate via the Grid?
Ease of dynamically controlling access to a complex information source?
Orders
Wireless
Network HQ
Wired
News
Specs
BGW
Application: Soldiers in the Field
Lessons Learned
Mobile code is an effective and efficient infrastructure for developing military command-and-control applications.
TCP/IP is inappropriate for the wireless network.
Applications need to make decisions based on the current network situation.
Network sensing and prediction is essential for best performance.
Bandwidth conservation, power control, and network clustering are critical even in “high-bandwidth” wireless networks.
Key Technologies
Mobile code
Ad-hoc wireless networking, network sensing, and network prediction
Example Scenario:
Urban Peacekeeping
Our Peacekeepers
NATO peacekeeping force in capital city
Laptop
200 MHz Pentium II
Linux
Lucent cards
2 Mb/s
meters
GPS antenna
Lessons Learned:
Motorola ONCORE GPS unit
Aggressor state:
New Hampshire
Our focus is software. The software can be used on many different hardware platforms (e.g., wearable computers).
Breakaway province: Hanover
Dartmouth