NASA's scientific endeavors are often conducted in harsh environments, space exploration for example. It is critical to develop communications capabilities to support these activities. The goal of Nomadic Networking activities is to enable NASA science and engineering in locations not serviced by traditional wired communications infrastructures. Specific objectives include providing energy-efficient protocols for sensor and mobile networks, providing self-configuring sensor networks in challenging environments, developing nomadic and mobile network management techniques, developing network Quality of Service techniques for mobile environments, and demonstrating nomadic and mobile communications technologies in remote or extreme environments.
Current components of this task include ad hoc routing protocols, field demonstrations and application demonstrations over hybrid networks.
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Nomadic Networking activities are developing technologies that will provide critical support for NASA's Vision for Space Exploration, an initiative announced by the President in January 2004. Both ad hoc network protocol development and communications energy efficiency are essential components of a communications system to support human and robotic exploration of the moon, Mars, and other destinations within the solar system.
In addition, NREN is already working with the Mobile Agents and the Mars Analog Research and Technology Experiment activities, both of which are investigating techniques for human and robotic planetary exploration. Thus, we are well positioned to integrate the results of our research into future exploration missions.
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Research: Nomadic Networking
