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Section: Contracts and Grants with Industry
DGA/MI
Participants : Cédric Adjih, Pascale Minet, Paul Mühlethaler.
Period: 2007 - 2011
Partners: DGA/MI.
The DGA/MI, French MoD/DGA, contract has been notified in December 2007. It has a duration of 36 months. It focuses on mobile ad hoc networks. DGA/MI is interested in the standardization done at the IETF and more particularly within the MANET and AUTOCONF groups, where the HIPERCOM team-project is active. Furthermore, this contract addresses topics that belong to DARPA's recent initiatives about new military wireless networks able to adapt to changing conditions. These networks will be self-forming, self-healing, self-configuring and self-optimizing. They will provide an intelligent relaying and an intelligent power management. All these topics are present in the DGA/MI contract:
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OLSRv2: identification of the differences with the previous version and expected benefits;
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Multicast protocols: analysis and performance evaluation of three multicast protocols: SMOLSR, MOLSR and MOST;
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Autoconfiguration in IPv6: choice of a solution adapted to military applications;
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Dynamic routing over a hierarchical topology: when does a hierarchical routing outperforms a flat one?
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Adaptive routing on high frequency (HF) links;
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Merge of networks.
Three of them are leading an implementation on a real platform comprising 18 nodes. Nodes are equipped with 802.11b cards and measurements tools on Linux. They implement the OLSR routing protocol. This testbed allows CELAR to make demonstrations with a real mobile ad-hoc network, and evaluate the potential benefits of such a network in military tactical applications, with a special focus on performances and reliability.
This year, we were sollicited by DGA/MI for the expertise of European industrial proposals about the design of wireless mobile ad hoc networks supporting tactical military applications. Our comments contributed to improve the solutions presented.