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ICEMAN: A Practical Architecture for Situational Awareness at the Network Edge

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Situational awareness applications used in disaster response and tactical scenarios require efficient communication without support from a fixed infrastructure. As commercial off-the-shelf mobile phones and tablets become cheaper, they are increasingly deployed in volatile ad-hoc environments. Despite wide use, networking in an efficient and distributed way remains as an active research area, and few implementation results on mobile devices exist. In these scenarios, where users both produce and consume sensed content, the network should efficiently match content to user interests without making any fixed infrastructure assumptions. We propose the ICEMAN (Information CEntric Mobile Ad-hoc Networking) architecture which is designed to support distributed situational awareness applications in tactical scenarios. We describe the motivation, features, and implementation of our architecture and briefly summarize the performance of this novel architecture.

This work was supported in part by SRI International and by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) under Contract N66001-12-C-4051. The views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government. Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited, Case 21098 and 23317.

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    It is sometimes referred to as the “last tactical mile” problem.

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Acknowledgements

Apart from building on results from earlier projects, such those funded in the context of the DARPA Disruption Tolerant Networking program and our NSF- and ONR- funded projects on Networked Cyber Physical Systems at SRI, the ENCODERS project has also leveraged some results and ideas developed by International Fellows in their own research while visiting SRI. Here we would like to use the opportunity to thank Hasnain Lakhani, Jong-Seok Choi, Dawood Tariq, Rizwan Asghar, Je-Min Kim, Francoise Sailhan, Sathiya Kumar, and Sylvain Lefebvre for their valuable ideas and contributions. We would like to thank our team member SET Corp. (David Anhalt, Ralph Costantini, Dr. Hua Li, and Dr. Rafael Alonso) for their support and collaboration on interest modeling. At the beginning of the program we selected SAIC as our Mobile Systems Integrator. Hence we would like to thank the entire SAIC team (led by Dr. William Merrill and George Weston) for providing the development platform and successfully demonstrating an integrated CBMEN system based on the SRI ENCODERS architecture at Ft. AP Hill, VA, and MIT Lincoln Labs (the team led by Dr. Andrew Worthen) for their independent evaluation of the performance in testbed experiments and in the field.

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    Samuel Wood, James Mathewson & Hamid Sadjadpour

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    Mark-Oliver Stehr, Minyoung Kim & Ashish Gehani

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Wood, S. et al. (2015). ICEMAN: A Practical Architecture for Situational Awareness at the Network Edge. In: Martí-Oliet, N., Ölveczky, P., Talcott, C. (eds) Logic, Rewriting, and Concurrency. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23165-5_29

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