LANdroids is a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research
Program Agency) funded project.
The goal is to
create small, inexpensive, smart robotic relay nodes
that
autonomously establish and manage mesh networks
when deployed in a scattered
formation through an
urban environment, securing a temporary communications
network for the soldiers. PARC, together with
Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Center (prime) and
CMU, is one of the five teams awarded for Phase I, and
one
of the two teams successfully entered Phase II
of this project. In this talk,
I will present the
domain of the problem, the challenges and our initial
solutions, and discuss possible future directions
for this research.
