Suburban Ad Hoc
Networks Group
(1996 - 2009)
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Introduction
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The
Suburban Ad-Hoc Network (SAHN) project involves
all aspects of a wireless ad-hoc cooperative network in which there is
no centrally owned or controlled infrastructure. The project was
conceived by Carlo Kopp and Ronald Pose in 1997. All equipment is owned
and operated by the end users in a cooperative manner. In order to make
this work effectively the network is self-configuring and is secure in
that only 'members' of the community of users can gain access to the
network. Facilities are available for monitoring network traffic and
resource use. The accounting system may be used for a charging system,
but in general in such a cooperative network it is hoped that it would
only be necessary to charge for services provided by say gateways onto
the Internet. The aim is to provide broadband connectivity using cheap
network node hardware with a moderate initial set-up cost, but no
ongoing charges. The motivation is that the Telcos do not provide a
service that is fairly priced and of adequate quality. In particular
the bandwidth offered by commercial provider tends to be asymmetric,
making it unsuitable for file serving, and the traffic charges are
high. Those user communities wanting essentially secure internal
communication resent having to set up a VPN and pay full Internet
traffic charges. The SAHN is good for them. Suitable communities
include branch office networks, and employees connecting to corporate
networks from home. The project looks at all protocol layers,
optimizing them for a wireless, ad-hoc environment. It even looks at
antenna design and RF propagation. Security is considered at all levels
as is user specified Quality of Service. In 2001, three CS honours
students set up a hardware testbed and did prelinimary studies on
network management, routing, security and quality of service provision.
One, Adrian Bickerstaffe, won the Siemens Innovation Award, Victorian
State final for this project. Work is progressing in the routing
algorithms. Other aspects of the project are awaiting funding and
resources to accelerate progress.
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January 2019 Note
This is a reconstituted snapshot of the website as it appeared 10 years
ago, with updated URIs for accessible publications, and the addition of the 2016
TVT paper extending the work done by Tyson, Kopp and Pose in 2009 into
VANETs.
We closed down the group due to a
persistent lack of interest by Australian research funding bodies and
industry, despite an excellent publications record and some research
outcomes with genuine disruptive potential. With advances in the 802.11
protocol family, that disruptive potential remains, and the SAHN remains
relevant for geographical environments where extant radio-frequency and
cabled technology cannot be operated profitably due to low subscriber
densities.
Many of these research results are at
this time directly applicable to VANETs, MANETs, IOT (Internet of
Things) applications, and some Edge Computing applications.
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Completed Projects
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| Honours Thesis 2001
- Adrian
Bickerstaffe - Suburban Ad Hoc Networks I (PDF,
.ps.gz)
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Presentation
Poster
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| Honours Thesis 2001
- Enes
Makalic - Suburban Ad Hoc Networks II (PDF,.ps.gz)
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Presentation
Poster
(PDF) |
| Honours Thesis 2001
- Slavisa
Garic - Suburban Ad Hoc Networks III (PDF,
.ps.gz)
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Presentation
Poster
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| 2001 SAN Group
Common Poster (PDF) |
Honours
Thesis 2003 - Stanley Gunawan - Resource Charging in Ad-hoc Networks (Website)
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Honours
Thesis 2003 - Paul Conilione - QoS Frameworks for SAHN (Website)
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Honours
Thesis 2004 - Benjamin Bender - Developing a System Management
Database for the Suburban Ad-Hoc Network (Website)
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| Honours
Thesis 2005 - Michael Tyson - The Implementation of a SAHN
Protocol on an Open Source Platform (PDF), Presentation Slides
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| PhD Thesis 2005
- Muhammad
Mahmudul Islam (Sajal) - Design
and Analysis of Low Level Protocols for Suburban Ad-Hoc Networks (SAHNs)
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PhD Thesis 2010
- Sk. Mohammad Rokonuzzaman - Quality
of
service
aware
topology control for wireless ad hoc
networks using smart antennas |
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Incomplete Projects
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PhD Research Project
- Michael R. Tyson - Radio Propagation Aware Ad Hoc Networks
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Publications (1998 - 2016)
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C Kopp and R
D Pose, Bypassing the home computing bottleneck: the suburban
area
network, in
J Morris (ed) Australian Computer Science Communications, Computer
Architecture '98, Proceedings of
the 3rd Australasian Computer Architecture Conference (ACAC '98) Perth,
Australia,
2-3
February 1998, Springer-Verlag, Singapore, ISBN:
981-3083-93-X, 20: 4: 87-100.
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Muhammad Mahmudul
Islam, Ronald
Pose, Carlo Kopp, Efficient Routing in Suburban Ad-Hoc Networks (SAHN), The
2003
International Conference on
Communications in
Computing (CIC 2003), June 23-26 2003. Monte Carlo Resort, Las
Vegas, USA.
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Muhammad Mahmudul
Islam, Ronald
Pose, Carlo Kopp, Routing
In Suburban Ad-Hoc Networks, The 2003 International
Conference on Computer
Science and its
Applications (ICCSA 2003), July 1-2 2003. San Diego , USA.
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Muhammad Mahmudul
Islam, Ronald
Pose, Carlo Kopp, A Router Architecture to Achieve Link Rate Throughput in Suburban
Ad-Hoc
Networks, A Omondi and S Sedukhin (eds), Lecture Notes
in
Computer
Science, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, ISSN: 0302-9743 &
ISBN: 3-540-20122-X, Vol 2823, pp 395-407. Presented at The Eighth
Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture
Conference (ACSAC'2003), September 23 - 26, 2003.
Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan.
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Muhammad Mahmudul
Islam, Ronald
Pose, Carlo Kopp, A
Hybrid
QoS
Routing
Strategy for Suburban Ad-Hoc Networks, The 11th
IEEE International Conference on Networks
(ICON 2003),
September 28 - October 1 2003. Sydney, Australia.
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Muhammad Mahmudul
Islam, Ronald
Pose, Carlo Kopp, Multiple Directional Antennas in Suburban Ad-Hoc Networks , The IEEE International Conference on Information
Technology
(ITCC 2004) [Revised version], April 5 -7, 2004. Las Vegas, USA.
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Muhammad Mahmudul
Islam, Ronald
Pose, Carlo Kopp,
A Link Layer Security Protocol for Suburban Ad-Hoc Networks , Australian Telecommunication
Networks and
Applications Conference (ATNAC 2004), Dec 8 - 10, 2004. Sydney,
Australia.
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Muhammad
Mahmudul
Islam, Ronald Pose, Carlo Kopp, Link
Layer Security for SAHN Protocols, To appear at
the IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Pervasive Wireless
Networking,
Dec 2004.
Hawaii,
USA.
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Muhammad Mahmudul
Islam, Ronald
Pose, Carlo Kopp, Effects
of Directional Antennas on 802.11e, Second IEEE and IFIP
International Conference on wireless and Optical Communications
Networks (WOCN 2005) , Dubai, UAE, 6-8 March 2005, IEEE, Dubai, UAE,
ISBN: 0-7803-9019-9, pp 34-39.
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Muhammad Mahmudul
Islam, Ronald
Pose, Carlo Kopp, Challenges
and
a
Solution
to
Support QoS for Real-Time Traffic in Multi-Hop Ad-Hoc
Networks, Second IEEE and IFIP International Conference on
wireless and Optical Communications Networks (WOCN 2005) , Dubai, UAE,
6-8 March 2005, IEEE, Dubai, UAE, ISBN: 0-7803-9019-9, pp 394-399.
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Muhammad Mahmudul
Islam, Ronald
Pose, Carlo Kopp, MAC
Layer Support for Real-Time Traffic in a SAHN, International
Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC 2005)
, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 4-6 April 2005, EEE Computer Society, Los
Alamitos, CA, USA, ISBN: 0-7695-2315-3, pp 639-645.
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Muhammad Mahmudul
Islam, Ronald
Pose, Carlo Kopp, Making
SAHN-MAC
Independent
of
Single
Frequency Channel and Omnidirectional
Antennas, IASTED International Conference on Networks and
Communication Systems (NCS 2005), Krabi, Thailand, 18-20 April 2005,
ACTA Press, Anaheim, CA, USA, ISBN: 0-88986-490-X, 6pp.
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Muhammad Mahmudul
Islam, Ronald
Pose, Carlo Kopp, An
Intrusion
Detection
System
for
Suburban Ad-hoc Networks - IEEE
Tencon, Melbourne, Australia, 22-24 November 2005, 6pp.
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Muhammad Mahmudul
Islam, Ronald
Pose, Carlo Kopp, Suburban
Ad-hoc Networks in Information Warfare - 6th Australian InfoWar
Conference, Geelong, Australia, 24-25 November 2005.
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Muhammad Mahmudul Islam, Ronald
Pose, Carlo Kopp, Security
in
Ad-Hoc Networks, Chapter 13 (30 pages) in Mobile Multimedia
Communications: Concepts, Applications and Challenges (2008)
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Muhammad Mahmudul Islam, Ronald
Pose, Carlo Kopp, Routing
Protocols
for Ad-Hoc Networks, Chapter 9 (44 pages) in Mobile
Multimedia Communications: Concepts, Applications and Challenges (2008)
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Sk. Mohammad Rokonuzzaman, Ronald
Pose, Iqbal Gondal, Multiple
Radio
Channels and Directional Antennas in Suburban Ad Hoc Networks ,
Proc. ISPA'08
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Sk. Mohammad Rokonuzzaman, Ronald
Pose, Iqbal Gondal, A
Frameswork
for a QoS Based Adaptive Toplogy Control System for Wireless
Ad Hoc Networks with Multibeam Smart Antennas , Proc. AWSN 2008
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Sk. Mohammad Rokonuzzaman, Ronald
Pose, Iqbal Gondal, A
Cross
Layer Approach for Using Multiple Radio Channels with Multiple
Beams in a Suburban Ad Hoc Network , Proc. ATNAC 2008
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Sk. Mohammad Rokonuzzaman, Ronald
Pose, Iqbal Gondal, A
Cross
Layer Approach for QoS Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc
Networks , Proc. IEEE TENCON 2009
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Sk. Mohammad Rokonuzzaman, Ronald
Pose, Iqbal Gondal, A
Warning
Based Preemptive Routing Scheme for QoS Maintenance in Wireless
Ad Hoc Networks , Proc. ACM PE-WASUN '09
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M R Tyson, R D Pose, C Kopp, S M
Rokonuzzaman, M M Islam, Engineering
a suburban ad-hoc network, Proceedings of the 7th Australian
Information Warfare and Security Conference, 4 December 2006 to 5
December 2006, School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan
University, Perth WA Australia, pp. 120-130.
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M R. Tyson, C. Kopp, The
Lightweight Global Navigation
Satellite System (GNSS) Support Protocol (LGSP), Internet-Draft,
Experimental, Network Working Group, Internet Engineering Task Force,
December 19, 2007, URI: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tyson-lgsp-01
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M R Tyson, C Kopp and R D Pose: RF
propagation
environment
awareness (RPEA) for smart mobile ad-hoc
networks, Journal of Battlefield
Technology, vol 11, issue 3, Argos Press Pty Ltd, Red Hill ACT
Australia, pp. 21-27.
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M R Tyson and C Kopp, LGSP: A
lightweight GNSS support protocol for military and civil applications,
Journal
of Battlefield Technology, vol 11, issue 1, Argos Press Pty
Ltd, Red Hill ACT Australia, pp. 23-30.
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M R
Tyson, C Kopp and R D Pose, RF
Propagation Environment Awareness (RPEA) for Smart Mobile Ad-Hoc
Networks, Proceedings of the Military Communications and
Information Systems 2008 Conference (MilCIS 2008), 18 November 2008 to
20 November 2008, MilCIS, pp. 1-6, URI: http://www.milcis.com.au/milcis2008pdf/Reviewed
papers/Tyson-final.pdf
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M R Tyson and C Kopp, Defining
functional requirements for a
lightweight GNSS support protocol (LGSP), Proceedings of the 6th
IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science,
11 July 2007 to 13 July 2007, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA
USA, pp. 241-246, URI: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
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M R Tyson and C Kopp, LGSP: A
lightweight GNSS support protocol
for military and civil applications, Proceedings of the Military
Communications and Information Systems 2007 Conference (MilCIS 2007),
20 November 2007 to 22 November 2007, MilCIS,
pp.
1-6, URI: http://www.milcis.com.au/milcis2007pdf/2.4b-3
Tyson.pdf
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C. Kopp, M R Tyson and R D Pose, Tomographic Reconstruction of RF Propagation to Aid VANET Routing in Urban Canyons, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 9888-9901, Dec. 2016.
doi: 10.1109/TVT.2016.2528341, URI: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7404043&isnumber=7779452
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