Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

Constantin Serban

Cho-Yu Jason Chiang

Kyriakos Manousakis

Akshay Vashist

Ritu Chadha

Alexander Poylisher

Rauf Izmailov

A communication node operable to estimate faults in a mobile ad hoc network and method of performing the same. In one embodiment, the communication node includes a processor and memory including computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the communication node to monitor a set of observable parameters at the communication node, produce a fault estimate at the communication node from the set of observable parameters, and provide the fault estimate to a global fault detector at another communication node.

Communication node operable to estimate faults in an ad hoc network and method of performing the same

A virtual ad hoc network testbed provides the capability to instrument a testbed in order to support the execution of network-aware applications 'as is.' Network aware applications are a special class of applications that interact with a network not only by using the network for communication purposes, but also configure or read the status of network devices. Local stack management provides the means to automatically construct standard APIs for accessing the information residing in a simulated or emulated network, and instantiate these APIs. The testbed is designed to bridge a standard management module (such as SNMP) and a simulation or emulation model, starting from a MIB module. The testbed uses CORBA as a communication means. The process is divided into two parts, agent side and model side.

Virtual ad hoc network testbeds for network-aware applications

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Constantin Serban