PRAN - Physical Realization of Ad Hoc Networks

overview	-	what is PRAN
people	-	who are we
papers		PRAN documents
talks	-	selected presentation slides
Source code	-	Released source code
Demonstration	-	Pictures and videos of NASA demo
Related research	-	past and current projects that have similar goals
funding	-	who sponsors PRAN

Overview

PRAN (Physical Realization of Ad hoc Networks) is a user-level implementation of ad hoc routing protocol. It provides an environment to use the ns-2 logic of routing protocols for actual implemtation. There are small hooks in the kernel to pass packets to the ad hoc routing protocol running in the user level.

Current status: Implementation completed for DSR ad hoc routing protocol in FreeBSD 5.1 kernel. Has also been ported to Linux kernel, and for AODV protocol to show portability across systems and protocols. Gave a demo at MobiCom 2004, September 29. Submitted paper for publication. Code released in public.

PRAN explained: Pran (or life) is the innermost essence of anything. The logic which was part of the ns-2 simulator has been given "pran" (new lease of life), and is now the actual implementation code.

People

Faculty: David B. Johnson
Graduate Students: Amit Saha Santashil PalChaudhuri Shu Du Khoa To
Contact

Papers

Design and Performance of PRAN: A System for Physical Implementation of Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), April 2007. [pdf] Previous version as Computer Science TR05-449. [pdf]
Physical Implementation and Evaluation of Ad Hoc Network Protocols using Unmodified Simulation Models.
ACM SIGCOMM Asia Workshop, Beijing, China, Apr, 2005 [Paper]
PRAN: Physical Implementation and Evaluation of Ad Hoc Network Protocols using Unmodified Simulation Models .
Demo at MobiCom 2004 [Poster] .

Talks

NASA Ad Hoc Networking Demonstration. Pizza Talk by David Johnson. 30 Sep, 2003

Source Code

Version 0.1 of source code - Compatible with FreeBSD 5.1, ns-2.26 for DSR protocol. Released: 15 March, 2004

Version 1.0 of source code - Compatible with FreeBSD and Linux, ns-2.26 for DSR and AODV protocol. Released: 29 Sep, 2004

NASA Demonstration

Related research

AODV-UU: Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing
Click: The Click Modular Router Project
nsclick: The nsclick Simulation Environment

Funding

This work is supported in part by NASA under grant NAG3-2534.

Monarch Systems CS Rice