A packet will be dropped when it arrives at a congested node in a routing path. The authors of [22] proposed the CRP protocol that can alleviate the congestion problem by splitting the traffic to the bypass nodes. In this thesis, we propose a new routing protocol, called MIMO-assisted congestion-adaptive routing protocol (MCRP for short), for multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs for short). In MCRP, nodes periodically record the information of their rate-link/range-link neighbors. MCRP alleviates the congestion problem by dynamically adjusting the MIMO antenna mode and splitting the traffic to the downstream range-link neighbors. In addition, MCRP can quickly reestablish the routing path when it is broken due to node failure or mobility. Simulation results show that MCRP outperforms the existing protocols in terms of packet delivery ratio and end-to-end throughput.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 18-21, 2004 / Town & Country Resort, San Diego, California / This paper describes a high altitude experimental flight test platform developed by the University of Kansas (KU) and the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City Plant (NNSA’s Kansas City Plant) for high altitude payload flight testing. This platform is called the Kansas University Balloon Experiment Satellite (KUBESat). The paper describes the flight test platform and experimental flight test results captured at Fort Riley, KS from characterization of the KCP developed Distributed Transmitter (DTX).