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Self-Configuring Networks

ACM News Service: Needed -- Self-Configuring Networks.  I am still looking for decentralized discovery and configuration mechanisms, and maybe this military requirement has some equivalence for P2P distributed-object operations.

DARPA is looking at mobile self-configuring ad hoc networks, and it appears to be a piggyback on top of IP.  That part makes sense for me.  Their current experimental scheme tops out at 200 nodes, which is interesting.  I wonder if there is a way to work out regions or some kind using a scalable, fractal growth approach.

That then has me wonder about authentication and attestation mechanisms (so here we go around the track again ...).

Joab Jackson's 2004-11-22 Government Computer News article features an interview with U.S. Army Colonel Timothy Gibson and what is going on with tactical network in the field.

Tracking Down MANET

I didn't find links to MANET or the Control Plane notions, but a web search uncovered the Naval Research Laboratory's page on the IETF MANET working group.  There are piles of links to work that goes back to at least 1998.

WCTG-NIST MANET Projects.  Here's a NIST page with material on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs).  I am just as keen about this sort of thing for creating dynamic overlays in fixed-position systems too, and here's more information.

Defense Against Cyber Attacks on Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs).  There is also serious concern for defending MANETs against cyber attacks, something that would worry me even in a presumably-more-benign environment than battlefield tactical systems (one would hope).  This is going to be classified work according to the announcement of a March, 2004, solicitation.

I had more but I lost it once and I am going to stop and post this much.  I really hate web-intermediated document authoring.  I really do.

posted by orcmid at 12/11/2004 04:39:49 PM, rating data by NewsGator Online