A practical evaluation of smartphone application on mesh networks

Abstract

This paper presents a mesh architecture proposal called Mobile mEsh Network to Aid in CountEring drug TRAffiCKing (M.E.N.A.C.E-TRACK). This project was born from the hypothesis we could establish a covert network channel independent of the cell phone companies infrastructures. Therefore, law enforcement agencies could establish connection with field personnel, in a fault tolerant fashion allowing the transmission of multimedia data (instead of only voice). The main contribution for this paper is the strategies involved to configure smartphones on the MANET side of this system. We present the main difficulties and one possible solution to implement ad hoc mode on our testbed so we can enable a MANET organization on M.E.N.A.C.E-TRACK.