Project Intro:

SWAP is a collaborative project to provide a working set of hardware, software and networking configurations to facilitate ad-hoc mesh networking between ships, and between ships and shore facilities, within the UNOLS oceanographic research fleet. SWAP is also being developed to facilitate connections between other kinds of nodes, including instrumented buoys, light houses and cabled observatories.

To better understand our goals read our Story Scenarios and the SWAP FAQ.

In December 2003, several of us met for a weekend at Scripps Institute of Oceanography and hashed out an initial working topology. Much of that topology exists today and the detailed results of our work can be found in our Candidate Toplogoy Document