News: 10/14/05 - DAMON v2 is under development as part of the NSF MeshKit project. We expect to release the new version in early 2006.

With the advent of small form-factor devices, protocol standardization, and robust protocol implementations, multi-hop mobile networks are witnessing widespread deployment. The monitoring of such networks is crucial for their robust operation.

DAMON is a distributed system for monitoring multi-hop mobile networks. DAMON uses agents within the network to monitor network behavior and send collected measurements to data repositories. DAMON's generic architecture supports the monitoring of a wide range of protocol, device, or network parameters. Other key features of DAMON include seamless support for multiple repositories, auto-discovery of sinks by the agents, and resiliency of agents to repository failures.

We have implemented DAMON agents that collect statistics on data traffic and the Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol. Our implementations for the Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems can be downloaded by clicking here.

We thank NSF and Intel Corporation for supporting this project.