Mesh Rider® OS | Scalable Self-forming and Self-healing Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET)
Mesh Rider networking is FIPS-140-3 certified with higher scalability than LTE and consumer grade WIFI (802.11) protocols built on top of OpenWrt Linux OS.
World War 3 ready—n00bs, need not apply.
Jamming is an illegal, nearly out of date method for security or pranks. Let’s dig into Short Range Recon-Electronic Warfare techniques being used on todays battlefield(s).
This post is not—in anyway political, biased, passive, glorifying, or denoting either side of the concurrent battles among or around some of us, please do not take the smallest detail out of this context and make a big deal out of it, this publication is signifying how cool technology is, period.
A company you probably haven’t heard of named Doodle Labs has developed a network which was first tested on some of their prototype devices alongside Teal Drones. They developed a legal technology that is compliant with multiple bills that have recently been passed into law; Section 817 (2023) and Section 848 (2020) of the National Defense Authorization Act, and the American Security Drone Act, which, not only allows, but strategically enables “continuous approach to rapidly prototyping and scaling” as DIU puts it. This technology fuses LTE and WiFi to create a highly resilient, low latency, high throughput and secure connection(s), operable through GUI, mobile, CLI, embeds and mesh means for small and larger topographies respectively.
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Doodle Labs’ patented multi-band Mesh Rider Radios pack up to six separate frequency bands into a single low-SWaP radio. They are available in a variety of band combinations, including licensed federal frequencies (M1-M6, L + S band, Nato-C band) and unlicensed ISM bands.
Incase that’s a bit confusing, the gif below demonstrates a little on how each drone can hop bands/channels/bandwidths whenever it/they encounter interference (jamming) automatically (and **manually) to continue to receive and send transmissions via (TCP/IP packets) with Message Queuing Telemetry Transports networking to create an avoidance system in realtime known better known as their protocol called Sense which activity uses two detection techniques:
Link Monitoring
Link Recovery
The technology was introduced in 2023, to read more on how licensed and unlicensed configurations work or how to set up Sense, checkout their Tech Library.
**Without a Sense license, it is still possible to make manual band/channel/bandwidth changes through either the GUI or the JSON-RPC/UBUS API
Checkout Aaron from Doodle Labs demonstrate the anti-interference methods of Mesh Rider.
UAVs, UGVs, AMRs, mobile robotics, connected teams, government, defense and other applications.
What I love about all of this the most is how this is going to pave the way and plant idea seeds that will grow. Consumer product companies will continue to take ideas from each other to market a better product than their competition and eventually we will end up with mechanism like Sense—or which I hope because your PAN(s), WLAN(s), etc., are susceptible to jamming and interference which is a very easy technique that can be done for free and pretty easy with Wireshark; I can do it from a $100 phone with a USB-C port. Most communication nodes and home security systems that rely on wireless signals such as Ring products from Amazon can be disturbed easily and they could use this kind of technology. To argue, most video-doorbells will still record and persistently attempt to transmit the present data via Bluetooth to its base station while they are being jammed (depending of the strength of the attack) and will then transfer it through the internet via 2.4-5Ghz radio waves; so you’d still have the footage after the jamming ceases just maybe not your property/materials. With an anti-interference technological capabilities on your routers (being that your security system isn’t hardwired) the transmissions would be able to transfer and you’d be able to receive the detection alerts, and either watch what’s going on or counter the attacker(s).
When combined with Mesh Rider’s Low Probability of Intercept (LPI) and Low Probability of Detection (LPD) waveform, Sense ensures uninterrupted communication and connectivity for advanced drones in the fields of defense, public safety and commercial industry.
Learn More: “Doodle Labs Technology Building Blocks”
Sense can be operated up to 50+ miles away, encrypted with latency lower than 10 ms. Built on top of your standard 802.11 and 6th Gen SDR to (typically) do a robotic-suicide mission while complying with country regulations.
Mesh Rider radios use a listen-before-talk (LBT) algorithm.
So trying to spoof some recognizable noise from false base stations may not be as easy as it is for a regular node. Even if they are, by the time you boot, or parse an update and start sniffing to attempt to set up a rogue AP or perform a downgrade attack the robot(s) will probably be or have completed what they were intended to do before the enemy can even take action.
To sick for an antivirus™
This is straight out of a fiction movie—and let’s be blunt, it’s not necessarily new, but to most it is and it’s time to make room for reality.
So if this enlightened you and want more, there is technical details to learn about this technology being used in the battlefield—checkout there website and documentation(s) on how to set up and configure the Mesh Ride Radio program to do what you need it to do; with new driver updates here and there and even legacy tweaks there’s plenty to opt into and stay busy with or get the mission done.
If you do plan on testing out anything make sure bookmark their Range Estimation Tool.
Summary
Robotic warfare and electronic warfare aren’t going anywhere, anytime soon. In fact as many know it’s just getting started, and watching these technologies advance is exciting, if you want more action in your life and the proud feeling of doing something awesome go talk to your local recruiter today—serve your county, play with the coolest toys and sciences, and see the world differently.
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