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ALOHAnet: World’s First Wireless Network
Dr. Franklin Kuo and Dr. Norman Abramson attended the Milestone ceremony virtually. On October 13, 2020, Hawaii celebrated the An excerpt from Dr. Vinton Cerf, Google’s chief o Comprised of the ALOHA protocol and the installation of its fourth IEEE Milestone (for the internet evangelist and “Father of the Internet”: ALOHA System. ALOHAnet) with the world. “The University of Hawai’i is the gift that keeps o Acronym for "Additive Links On-line Hawaii Hawaii established a significant first with this on giving, and it has been giving for 50 years and Area network". celebration: The first IEEE Milestone to be more,” Cerf said. “We benefit from that. Imagine Prior to the ALOHA protocol, there was no virtually broadcast worldwide due to the COVID- the industries that have grown up around people existing packet-switching or packet-based 19 pandemic. who have learned skills from the University of protocols. This is the reason that Bob Metcalfe IEEE established the Electrical Engineering Hawaiʻi.” came to the University of Hawaii College of Milestones program in 1983 to honor significant Peer recognition of ALOHAnet and its co- Engineering to study under Dr. Norman achievements in the history of electrical and Principal Investigators, Dr. Norman Abramson Abramson. electronics engineering. and Dr. Franklin Kuo during the Virtual Prior to the ALOHA system, mainframe Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the University Installation Ceremony included: computers (PCs were at least a decade away) of Hawaii at Manoa College of Engineering • Dr. Vinton Cerf “Father of the Ethernet” were connected to one another via dedicated, decided on two ceremonies to recognize • Dr. Robert Metcalfe “Father of Ethernet”. Bob leased telephone lines or dedicated satellite ALOHAnet: a Fall 2020 virtual installation Metcalfe actually studied under Dr. Abramson at circuits, not a broadcast technology that is ceremony and a June 2021 mini symposium the University of Hawaii College of Engineering inherent to radio. physical ceremony to commemorate the 50th for a month while a graduate student at Harvard Prior to the ALOHAnet, there were no anniversary of the initial ALOHAnet broadcast in University. He took the ALOHA protocol and computer networks. ARPAnet became June 1971. improved it to build Collision Sense Multiple operational in 1975; ARPAnet computer- Dr. Brennon Morioka, Dean of the University of Access/Collision Detect (CSMA/CD) for Ethernet computer connections or nodes, were Hawaii at Manoa College of Engineering served while at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center dedicated, leased telephone lines. as Master of Ceremonies and speakers for the (PARC). In fact, he originally named Ethernet, Prior to the ALOHAnet the concept of shared ALOHAnet Installation ceremony were: “Altos Aloha Network”. medium access did not exist. Radio is inherently • Dr. David Lassner; President of the University • Dr. Robert Kahn at the time was the Director a shared access medium. of Hawaii; at ARPA/IPTO stated, “The ALOHA system was Prior to the ALOHAnet, there were no wireless • State of Hawaii Governor David Ige; to packet radio like the original timesharing computer communications. The Department of • Dr. Norman Abramson, co-PI for ALOHAnet; computer was to Arpanet”. Defense allowed ALOHAnet to utilize an • Dr. Franklin Kuo, co -PI for ALOHAnet; ALOHAnet consisted of three parts and experimental UHF frequency. • Kathy Land, IEEE President-Elect. established a number of firsts in Other significant firsts for the ALOHAnet communications, networking, and radio. The With the exception of Gov. Ige, all of the included: three components of the ALOHAnet (aka ALOHA speakers are IEEE Fellows or Senior Members. • Established and operated a UHF terrestrial System) were: The video recording of the October 13, 2020 data network within the state of Hawaii by • ALOHA protocol ALOHAnet Installation Ceremony may be December 1971. accessed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch? O Random access-based packet protocol • December 1972. v=moqUIww_fqQ&feature=emb_rel_end. • ALOHA System o The University of Hawaii at Manoa IBM 360 The official University of Hawaii o Comprised of a mainframe computer, remote mainframe became the first ARPAnet node to be communications site has an article that has the terminals, terminal connection units, and radio connected via satellite. This allowed connectivity recognition attributed to the University of Hawaii equipment in the first star, or hub-and-spoke between ALOHAnet and ARPAnet. College of Engineering and its graduates: configuration and to use a shared access • 1973. https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/10/13/aloha medium. net-honored-as-engineering-milestone/. • ALOHAnet continued on Page 5 Wiliki_Dec2020_Wiliki Sept06 11/24/20 6:54 AM Page 2
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The page includes links Carly Kaneko, President Voting will be conducted electronically to free programs, training, and resources, the [email protected] through the new Wild Apricot membership results of COVID-19 industry impact surveys, Claire Fukuoka, Vice President application with instructions sent via email. [email protected] and relevant online discussions with fellow Brandon Uejo, Treasurer Membership Applications members. The page also offers several ways to [email protected] • Student membership applications from work more effectively while at home and Lance Lam, Secretary Jessica Lee, Jacob Passoff, and Luke Withy- activities to take advantage of in the down time [email protected] Berry have been approved. you may have – even fun things to do with the Kapiolani Street, Past President • An Associate membership application has keiki! And don’t forget that all members have 10 [email protected] been received from Patricia Paulino of MKE free PDHs! 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Find out more at hi.swe.org. PO. Box 1901, Honolulu, HI 96805-1901 Mae Nakatani Fund is an annual award An association for Hawaii’s Engineers and Nishioka managed by the Hawaii PROF. KIM’S NEW BOOK ON Architects Community Foundation OCEAN RESOURCES NOW WEB address: www.eahawaii.org on behalf of SWE-HI. This scholarship is open AVAILABLE EAH 2020 Officers to Hawaii residents pursuing a STEM career and Can ocean thermal energy conversion and President Phil Blackman 282-7948 identifies as women, non-binary, transgender, 1st V. P. Rob Kinslow seawater utilization assist small island two-spirit, and/or third gender. Treasurer Aaron Erickson 591-2728 developing states? 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ALOHAnet, Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii; and a number of research institutes with operating units continued from Page 1 distributed throughout the state. All of the o PACNET started as the first packet- University of Hawaii facilities while residing on broadcasting satellite network linking sites in different islands, are within a radius of 200 miles Alaska, Australia, California, Hawaii, and Japan. from the main campus located on the island of o PACNET utilized the ALOHA protocol. Oahu. The goal of the ALOHAnet (aka ALOHA P.O. Box 2422 Honolulu, HI 96804 Inspired by ALOHAnet “ARPA initiated the System) was to connect these geographically www.HWEA.org PRNET project in 1973, funding both theoretical separated facilities with relatively low-cost and experimental research. Its goals were commercially available radio equipment 2020-2021 Officers outlined by Bob Kahn, namely, to investigate the “The attitude that we had was that the existing President: Jason Nikaido feasibility of using packet-switched, store-and- telephone network, which was used by people in [email protected] forward radio communications to provide those days, was the wrong approach,” Vice Pres.: Shelle Silva reliable computer communications in a mobile Abramson says. “The telephone network was [email protected] environment.” PRNET goal was to address a something that was set in place at the end of the Treasurer: Jon Baker significantly harder set of problems not 19th century, and we were at the end of the 20th [email protected] addressed by ALOHAnet; specifically, multi-hop century. We thought that radio communications Secretary: Alicia Nakano [email protected] communications between mobile vehicles might be a good way to start on it.” Past Pres.: Scott McAdam without a central station. Today, with the exception of Wi-Fi (it utilizes [email protected] As a researcher, Dr. Abramson obtained single channel communications), ALOHA PWO Rep.: Herman Ellis III ALOHAnet FY67 funding through Project Themis channels are utilized in all major mobile networks [email protected] a Department of Defense (DoD) program that and in almost all two-way satellite data networks Nat. Delegate: Kyle Yukumoto was established to fund “have-not” research to establish the initial communications link. [email protected] universities. DoD only funded research efforts at top tier universities at that time. Project THEMIS provided the largest amount of research project funds that the University of Hawaii had ever received to fund the ALOHA System in September 1968. In addition to its research goals, the purpose of ALOHAnet was to solve a significant issue that required a significant amount of funding — leased, dedicated telephone lines connecting the University of Hawaii main campus mainframe computer on Oahu to the terminals and remote P.O. Box 31218, Honolulu, HI 96817 sites on the other islands. Web page: www.samehonolulu.org The University of Hawaii system consists of: a SAME Honolulu Officers and Directors main campus on the island of Oahu; a four-year This user is operating the ALOHAnet hub machine, which uses a random access President COL James Hoyman, campus on the island of Hawaii; five two-year USINDOPACOM community colleges on the islands of Oahu, protocol to transmit packets over a shared channel. VP/Programs Leighton Wong, PE VP/Sustaining Members Will Boudra, USN (Ret) VP/Membership Wesley Ishizu THE I NSTITUTE OF Secretary Jeff Clark Treasurer/ E LECTRICAL AND Investments Andre Lee E LECTRONICS Regional VP, Pacific Region Eric Warner, USAF (Ret) E NGINEERS, INC. Advisor at Lge, Air Force John Lohr, Col, USAF (Ret) 2540 Dole Street, Holmes Hall Advisor at Lge, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 IEEE Hawaii Section Army LTC Josh Sturgill, USA Hawaii Section Officers: 2020-21 UHM College of Engineering Advisor at Lge, Coast Guard LCDR Kyle Ensley, USCG Section Chair: Steven Minakami Deans and Chairs Advisor at Lge, [email protected] Dean Brennon Morioka Navy LCDR Jason Ray, USN Vice-Chair: Kishore Erukulapati Int. Assoc. Dean David T. Ma Director, Awards/ [email protected] Assistant Dean Song K. Choi CEE Chair Ian Robertson Streamers Todd Barnes, PE, USA (Ret) Treasurer: Wayne Layugan EE Chair Wayne Shiroma Director, [email protected] ME Co-Chairs Lloyd Hihara and Weilin Qu Communications Julie Chen Secretary: Open HAWTI Dir. Magdy Iskander Professional Directory
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