[manet] Re: MANET WG Charter and Prior PRN & SURAN Work

Thank you Jim; this is very helpful.

Fred

From: Stevens, Jim <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2025 6:57 PM
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Subject: [manet] Re: MANET WG Charter and Prior PRN & SURAN Work

On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM Templin (US), Fred L
<[email protected]><mailto:&lt;[email protected]&gt;> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Templin (US), Fred L <[email protected]><mailto:&lt;[email protected]&gt;>
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> > Cc: manet <[email protected]><mailto:&lt;[email protected]&gt;>; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> > Subject: [manet] Re: MANET WG Charter and MANET Internetworking
> >
> > RFC2501 is still the primary reference for IETF MANET.
> >
> > The inspiration for IETF MANET came from 1990s-era programs including US DoD Task Force XXI (google: "DoD Task Force XXI") and DARPA
> > GloMo (google: "DARPA GloMo") which determined that standard OSPF was unsuitable for operation in dynamic tactical networks.
>
> In still earlier decades, there was the DoD Packet Radio program mentioned by RFC2501 (google: "DoD Packet Radio SRI").
> I went to work for SRI in 1997, and the SRI Packet Radio van was parked outside my office building as a historical artifact. Not too many people remember that one of the first nodes on the Internet (ARPNET at that time) was mobile.
>

The 1970s and 1980s DARPA Packet Radio Network (PRN) and Survivable Adaptive Networks (SURAN) programs researched and prototyped many aspects of MANETs.  They focused on all layers of the protocol stack but especially the Physical, Channel Access, and Networking layers.

Some relevant references are:

Proceedings of the IEEE, Year: 1978 | Volume: 66, Issue 11, Special Issue on Packet Communications
including nice overview of DARPA Packet Radio Program as of late 1970s
Advances in packet radio technology, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1455420/

Proceedings of the IEEE, Year: 1987 | Volume: 75, Issue: 1, Special Issue on Packet Radio Networks
This issue has several nice articles on packet radio networks, SURAN protocols, and future research topics.  For example, the following article is a nice overview of issues to be resolved in packet radio network designs as of the late 1980s – many of which are the same problems we are trying to solve and/or improve today
Issues in packet radio network design, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1457969/

IEEE Conference on Military Communications (MILCOM), 1990
Including nice overview of the DARPA SURAN program and the various algorithms and research that was performed
Accomplishments of the DARPA SURAN Program, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/117536/

Jim

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