User:Seank59/Monitor for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs)

MMAN (Monitor for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks) is a product of a research project at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Virginia, USA. The research was conducted by Hanif Kazemi (an electrical engineering graduate student) under the supervision of Professor Luiz A. DaSilva. The researchers are credited with inventing a new method to monitor and assess a MANET without injecting additional traffic into the monitored network or requiring the installation of any software/hardware on the MANET nodes. MMAN is distinguished from other MANET monitoring methods because of its passive and distributed nature. Instead of having a central monitoring node, MMAN uses multiple Monitoring Units (MU's) to passively cover a larger area and produces a more comprehensive picture of the MANET topology and each node's cooperation (forwarding) rate and traffic load. Experimental analysis show that MMAN does not require significant computing resources (CPU, storage space, bandwidth) and is able to completely cover a MAENT in a typical office floor (approx. 6000 sqf) by using only two MU's. MMAN was used to evaluate the performance of the competing teams at The MANIAC Challenge in November of 2007. The MANIAC Challenge took MMAN to the next level and used it to evaluate the performance of 5 different MANET teams in a multi-floor hotel building in Washington DC. MMAN was presented in the third ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization conference in September 2008 in San Francisco, California. A screen shot of MMAN GUI was used on the cover page of the Virginia Tech's Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering's 2008 annual report. The Virginia Tech Intellectual Property website The MANIAC Challenge website