The Military Aims to Develop 'Smart' & Secure WiFi

Krishna Dagli writes to mention a Network World article about a military project to create a self-configuring, secure wireless network. From the article: "Academic concepts such as artificial intelligence and Tim Berners-Lee's 'Semantic Web,' combined with technologies such as the Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET), cognitive radio, and peer-to-peer networking, would provide the nuts and bolts of such a network. Although the project is intended for soldiers in the field, the resulting advances could trickle down to end users. 'Military networks are going to converge as closely as we can to civil technologies,' says Preston Marshall, the program manager of DARPA's Advanced Technology Office."

Comments

Does it use

[WilliamSChips]

reverse-engineered Goa'uld technology?

First acronym was not MANET

[Anonymous Coward]

The technology was first called the Online Occupation Infrastructure and Logistics network, but they thought the acronym would not be wise.

Re:Oblig Groucho Marx Quote

[saskboy]

MANET
Hmm that doesn't sound sexist in any way. Why not call it the WOMANET?

Gives new meaning to the term...

[wwiiol_toofless]

"wardriving"