Virtualisation of Swarms : Designing a digital twin prototype for MaritimeManet

Thales is developing a new peer-to-peer distributed communications system for maritime purposes named MaritimeManet. MaritimeManet is a novel Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) designed with Multi-Beam Antennas in mind to circumvent the classical limitations of MANETs at these distances. For this new network, however, the need arises for a testing platform that allows iteration upon the distributed applications that will run on the network and the algorithms comprising MaritimeManet itself.