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Publications Upcoming PresentaionsWelcome to the MANEMO area of the Lancaster University Network Mobility website. MANEMO stands for MANET + NEMO, or the integration of Mobile Ad hoc Networking (MANET) and Network Mobility (NEMO) technologies. This area has become one of the key areas of research for our group.
MANEMO is a broad term that recognises the potential benefits of combining the localised, infrastructureless routing support of MANET with the global, persistant reachability properties of NEMO. We identified that this combination could be used to address existing problems in both the MANET and the NEMO domain. These separate approaches we call:
Typically, MANET scenarios require support for a level of intercommunication between the moble nodes that comprise the MANET. By this we mean that when MANET nodes converge they often have a need to communicate directly with other nodes within the MANET. Examples of these kinds of scenarios include:
By contrast, NEMO scenarios typically only require to communicate with nodes in the Internet, and therefore the connections they make to other nodes in their vacinity are only established to facilitate their ability to transmit packets over an Internet access network. Examples of these kinds of scenario include:
The Unified MANEMO Architecture (UMA) is our unified solution to supporting all types of MANEMO scenarios. By using a unified backhaul solution together with dynamically adaptable routing approaches in the mobile portion of our solutions, we are able to comprehensively provide IP mobility to some of the most challenging scenarios out there.
UMA consists of a bespoke Inter-HA communication system that ensures persistant reachability for all UMA-enabled mobile networks and leverages the use of Optimised Link State Routing (OLSR) to support MCM scenarios and the NEMO+ protocols (Tree Discovery (TD) and Network In Node Advertisement (NINA)) to support NCM scenarios.
Development of the UMA protcol is ongoing, further information about the status of our implementation can be found on our UMA Development Wiki.
For more detailed information on MANEMO and our UMA solution, please consider these related publications:
MANET-Centric: "Using NEMO to Support the Global Reachability of MANET Nodes" INFOCOM 2009, April 19 -25, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
NEMO-Centric: "Protocols to Efficiently Support Nested NEMO (NEMO+)" MOBIARCH (SIGCOMM Workshops 2008), August 17-22, Seattle, USA
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