Subject: NTDR Social Notes

From: Chip Elliott <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:44:51 -0500

MANET folks may be interested to hear that the "NTDR"
mobile ad hoc network has just been out for its 2nd yearly
field test, and the network did really well.

NTDR is a mobile network built from vehicle-mounted
radios, using a hierarchical shortest-path-first (SPF)
routing scheme. It's designed to scale to about 400 radios
in a single network. All Internet-based, of course.

This year's test involved about 60 nodes. Various
scenarios were tested, most of which had a large number
of moving vehicles. Traffic was a mixture of IP unicast,
sparse IP multicast, and quite dense IP multicast.

Would be nice to really exercise the protocols with
hundreds of vehicles, but these big field tests are really
quite hard/expensive to orchestrate.

I do hope I'm not annoying anyone with these "social notes".
We here at BBN are proud of this particular network, but
presumably everyone else has neat things going on too.
Naturally we'd love to hear everyone else's exploits.

Cheers and best wishes,

-- Chip