SURAN

The Survivable Radio Network (SURAN) project was sponsored by DARPA in the 1980s to develop a set of mobile ad hoc network (MANET) radio-routers, then known as "packet radios". It was a follow-on to DARPA's earlier PRNET project. The program began in 1983 with the following goals:

  • develop a small, low-cost, low-power radio that would support more sophisticated packet radio protocols than the DARPA Packet Radio project from the 1970s
  • develop and demonstrate algorithms that could scale to tens of thousands of nodes
  • develop and demonstrate techniques for robust and survivable packet networking in sophisticated electronic attacks.[1]

A follow-on program in 1987, the Low-cost Packet Radio (LPR),[2] attempted further innovations in mobile networking protocols, with design goals including:

  • management of radio spreading codes for security, and increasing capacity
  • new queue management and forwarding techniques for spread spectrum channels
  • scalability based on dynamic clustering

BBN Technologies provided the MANET protocols,[3][4] and Rockwell provided radio hardware. The prototype radios produced in these programs were known as VRC-99 radios, and were used by the Department of Defense throughout the 1990s for experimentation.

References
  1. Beyer, Dave (October 1990). "Accomplishments of the DARPA SURAN Program - IEEE Conference Publication". doi:10.1109/MILCOM.1990.117536. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. W.C. Fifer, F.J. Bruno, "The low-cost packet radio", Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 75, no. 1, Jan. 1987, pages 33-42.
  3. Jil Westcott, Gregory Lauer, "Hierarchical Routing for Very Large Networks", MILCOM 1984, IEEE Military Communications Conference, 21-24 Oct. 1984.
  4. Gregory S. Lauer, "Hierarchical routing design for SURAN", IEEE International Conference on Communications, 1986.

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