Will Mesh Networking Become Mainstream

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Will Mesh Networking Become Mainstream?
Mesh Networking Summit 200423 24 June 2004
Snoqualmie, WA

• Jim Freebersyser
• Technology Strategy Business Development
• Honeywell - Aerospace Electronic Systems, Centers
  of Excellence
• 3660 Technology Drive (MN65-2600), Minneapolis,
  MN 55418
• V 612 951 7352
• F 612 951 7438
• C 612 280 4014
• jim.freebersyser_at_honeywell.com

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Honeywell Corporate Overview
Percentage of 2003 Sales
SpecialtyMaterials
Aerospace
14
38
32
16
Automation and Control Solutions
Transportation and Power Systems
Broad And Diverse Businesses, Technologies And
Products
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Honeywell AES Centers of Excellence
Communications Surveillance
Guidance Controls

• Control Optimization

Honeywell Global Home Server

• Embedded Systems Communications

• Embedded Control

• Navigation

• Wireless RF Solutions

• Process Information Control

• Distributed Architecture Computing

Advanced Sensors
Information Decision Technology
Integrated Electronics Systems

• Microstructures
• Process Lab Characterization
• Embedded Sensors

• Advanced Materials Processes
• Micro Devices
• Functional
• Materials

• Technology/Solution Consulting and Digitization
  Support

• Signal Image Processing

• Human-Centered Systems

• Product Development Support

• Asset Health Management

• Automated Reasoning

• Research Technology Development

• Scheduling Operations Optimization

• Displays/Human Interface

Driving Growth With Advanced Technology,
Processes, And Services
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Now Cliched Application Spaces Are Relevant

• Tactical Military
• gt 10B JTRS/TCA Market for DoD Network-Centric
  Warfare (NCW)
• Emergency Services (Police, Fire, Rescue, Etc.)
• Market (post-9/11) will materialize Ex.
  PacketHop demo in Bay Area
• Disaster Relief / Humanitarian Operations / News
  Reporting
• WLANs augmented by commercial SATCOM
  (Inmarsat/Iridium)
• Space / Planetary Exploration
• Presidential manned space initiative
• Industrial Controls
• Factory automation, maintenance, safety, and
  security
• Inter/Intra Home Mesh Networking
• Implemented by Rooftop (among others) in the late
  90s

No Application Has Achieved Mass Market Status,
Yet
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Inter/Intra Home Mesh Networking

• Intra is now happening for nomadic users (because
  someone can make )
• Fixed hotspots - coffee shops, hotels, airports,
  etc.
• Mobile hotspots - Trains, planes, buses, and
  ships
• Can do hotspots at home, but if not nomadic,
  wires are better
• Data rate, reliability, security, etc.
• How might the mass market develop for Inter/Intra
  develop?
• The Cringely example School fund raiser
  creates a useful mesh density
• Up front cost for infrastructure but then free
  dial-up-like performance
• Technological/sociological roadblocks still exist
• Security
• Resource sharing (fairness)
• Legal/Law enforcement
• Will regulatory/competitive forces prevent
  development of mass market?
• Does sufficient unlicensed spectrum exist to
  support?
• Do dynamic spectrum sharing approaches address
  this challenge?

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Mobile, Wireless (Kids) Gaming

• Hand Held Gaming Device
• Affordable (100s)
• Hardened for use by kids
• Standalone as well as able to attach to
  infrastructure (hot spots, etc.)
• Lower Bar for Success for (Kids) Gaming
• Sufficient unlicensed spectrum exists (No .ppt or
  web pages files)
• No incumbent to overcome a new (but adjacent)
  market for all players
• Real security is not an issue (maybe hacking is
  part of the game?)
• A Commercial Market (PS2/XBox-like) Would Lower
  Cost to 100s
• DoD wants this Now for every dismount but cant
  afford it (batteries)

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Stepping on My Technical Soapbox

• Default Media Access Control (MAC) approaches
  (e.g. 802.11x) are inefficient when used in
  Mesh/MANET contexts vice the AP/cellular context
  for which they were designed
• Hidden terminal/exposed node QoS/congestion
  etc.
• So why does everyone use it? Its cheap!
• The MAC is embedded in the cheap radio and cant
  be modified very easily
• The MAC challenge has received insufficient
  attention in comparison to the PHY and routing
  challenges
• Is it a EE/PHY/Radio problem or is it a
  CS/NET/Router problem
• An integrated/cross-layer approach is preferred
• The community will have to move away from
  stochastic (e.g. RCDA) approaches to
  deterministic approaches (e.g. TDMA) for QoS
• Timing is now free from GPS
• Needs attention in standards bodies which
  traditionally are routing focused

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Public Service Annc. MANET Test Tools
JMAP Monitoring
TRPR Monitoring
NETTION (Coordinates Runs test)
EGRET
DAZLE
MGEN Scripts Config. Files
Log Files Config. Files
COMTEST Scenarios
Plots Stats
Go/No-Go
Other Scenarios
MGEN
GPS Logger
Ken Flynn (EGRET/NETTION), flynn_at_itd.nrl.navy.mil
John Schlorff (DAZLE), schlorff_at_itd.nrl.navy.mil N
aval Research Laboratory http//manimac.itd.nrl.na
vy.mil/MGEN/