1. UMassDieselNet Brief Overview UMass @ Amherst KU Resilinets Meeting March 16 th, 2007

2. DTN Testbed 40 buses fitted with off-the-shelf hardware Sparsely covering approximately 150 square miles Uses numerous external third-party APs Throwboxes increase connectivity

3. Routes Traveled

4. Hardware Onboard Bus HaCom Open Brick computer (577Mhz, 256MB Ram) 802.11b AP 802.11b usb interface GPS Device MaxStream XTend 900Mhz radio

5. Throwboxes Completely untethered Can be hailed by buses Act as stationary routers

6. In-Motion Bus Transfers

7. Generated Traffic Patterns

8. Perspective Future Features Introduce novel bus commuter services –Cached web pages –Risk-like board game

9. Useful References MaxProp: Routing for Vehicle-Based DTNs http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/brian/pubs/burge ss.infocom2006.pdf http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/brian/pubs/burge ss.infocom2006.pdf Live Bus Tracking - http://transit- dieselnet.admin.umass.edu/http://transit- dieselnet.admin.umass.edu/ Short DieselNet summary - http://www.cs.umass.edu/csinfo/announce/pi oneering.html http://www.cs.umass.edu/csinfo/announce/pi oneering.html