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CWINS
CWINS Overview
Worcester Polytechnic Institute http://www.cwins.wpi.edu
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, WPI, Worcester, MA
Presentation Outline
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
Introduction
Capabilities History of CWINS Current Personnel Project Sponsors
Recent Projects
Home RF Networks with Geolocation Urban Geolocation System Analysis and Demonstrator Wireless LAN for UMTS (WiLU) An Experimental Wireless Testbed for ATM Connectivity Performance Evaluation and Deployment of Wireless LANs
Facilities Contact Information
Capabilities
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
CWINS is an internationally renown compact wireless research laboratory with a successful history of research alliances with other groups in the industry and academia. Prominent features of CWINS include: •Close ties with the world leading wireless industry of Finland, that includes Nokia •Experience in technology and regulatory issues for commercial and military applications •Experience in development of testbeds and tools for design and performance monitoring •Experience as a corporate consultant in establishing wireless programs in several companies •Experience in on-sight training programs in several companies •Being a center for information exchange among different sectors of the wireless industry by publishing an international journal and organizing several international conferences
History of CWINS
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
• 1985 • 1986 • 1989 • 1989 • 1991 • 1992 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1996 • 1997 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 Started as the first research program in the wireless field in the US Was awarded the first NSF grant in wireless indoor networks Founding member of the IEEE PIMRC at UK Founding member of the IEEE ISSSTA at UK Organized the first IEEE workshop in wireless LANs at WPI Organized the third IEEE PIMRC in Boston Started IJWIN, the first journal in wireless communications Published the first graduate level textbook in wireless networks Started the WLRL as an industrial research alliance Organized the second IEEE workshop in wireless LANs at WPI Started WILU project with Nokia and other Finnish agencies Started design of Geolocation-Telecommunication networks with DARPA Organized the ninth IEEE PIMRC in Boston Received a Nokia fellowship to initiate an educational program with U. of Oulu, Finland
Current Personnel
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
Full-Time Staff Kaveh Pahlavan, Ph.D., Director of the Center Jacques Beneat, Ph.D., Research Scientist Xinrong Li, Ph.D. Candidate Jeffrey Feigin, M.Sc. Candidate Part-Time Affiliate Staff Allen Levesque, Ph.D., Research Professor James Matthews, Ph.D., Consultant in Radio Design Craig Mathais, Farpoint Group, Consultant in Wireless LANs Pratap Misra, Ph.D., MIT Lincoln Laboratories, Consultant in Navigation Robert Tingley, Draper’s Laboratories, Ph.D. Candidate WPI Professors with CWINS Experience ECE department: Jin-Fa Lee (Antenna and Propagation), John Orr (Communication and Signal Processing), Peder Pedersen (Biotechnology), John M. Rulnick (Networking), Christof Paar (Cryptography) CS Department: Isabel Cruz (Vizualization), Bob Kinicki (Networking), David Finkel (Networking)
Project Sponsors
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
Government Agencies: National Science Foundation, DARPA Local Industry GTE Laboratories, TASC/Litton, Bell Atlantic Mobile, BBN, Sierra Comm, Raytheon Company, DEC, Alta Group of Cadence National Industry: Savi Technologies (CA), Apple Computers (CA), Radio LAN (CA), Hewlett-Packard (CA), Motorola (IL), Texas Instruments (TX), United Technologies Research Center (CN) International: WLRL Alliance: Nokia (FI), Elektrobit (FI), Sonera (FI), TEKES (FI), Finnish Air Force (FI), NTT (JAPAN), Jolt (ISRAEL) Aironet, Cushcraft, Harris Semiconductors, Persoft, DEC Corporate Consulting: Nokia, Mercury Computers, WINDATA, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Honeywell, LK-Products, Finnish Academy, National Research Council Training: DEC, Sierra Comm, WINDATA, Codex/Motorola, NTT, Nokia
Recent Projects
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
Home RF Networks with Geolocation
Urban Geolocation System Analysis and Demonstrator
Wireless LAN for UMTS (WiLU)
An Experimental Wireless Testbed for ATM Connectivity
Performance Evaluation and Deployment of Wireless LANs
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
Home RF Networks with Geolocation
PIs: Kaveh Pahlavan (CWINS) and Matti Lattavaho (CWC, U. of Oulu, Finland) Personnel: Xinrong Li, Jeffrey Feigin, Mika Ylianttila, and Juha-Pekka Makela Sponsors: Nokia Mobile Phone, Nokia Telecommunication, Finnish Air Force and TEKES Duration: April 1999 to April 2000 Volume: $340K (shared among CWINS and CWC)
Layered Geolocation Networks GPS Backbone LPS D 2 D 1 GC database
Smart Home Networks PROGRAM
Urban Geolocation System Analysis and Demonstrator
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PIs: Kaveh Pahlavan and James Matthews (CWINS), Paul Creamer and Joseph Pizano (TASC/Litton) Personnel: Jacques Beneat, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Hamid Hatami, Yan Xu, and Mirela Marku Sponsor: DARPA, SUO/SAS Project Duration: June 1997 to January 1999 Volume: $1.2M (shared among TASC and CWINS)
Small Unit Operations Situation Awareness Systems (SUO-SAS)
Urban Radio Channel Coverage Predictions 3-D Overlay of one 4-Block Area in Brooklyn, NY.
Power Coverage Prediction
Local Wideband Radio Propagation Measurements h1 ii 1 a1 i m puls e resp ons e 1 0 .9
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Wireless LAN for UMTS (WiLU)
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PIs: Kaveh Pahlavan (CWINS) and Jaakko Talvite (CWC, U. of Oulu, Finland) Personnel: Ali Zahedi, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Hamid Hatami, Yan Xu, Jari Vallstrom, Mika Ylianttila, Juha-Pekka Makela, and Roman Pichna Sponsors: Nokia Mobile Phone, Nokia Telecommunication, Sonera, and TEKES Duration: April 1997 to April 1999 Volume: $560K (shared among the two labs)
Non-Homogeneous Wireless Networks
Intra-tech handoff Inter tech handoff
Mobile IP Testbed
130.215.16.204
192.168.253.1
Backbone + Internet 130.215. X .Y
130.215.16.232
Home Agent 192.168.253.24
MH 130.215.17.65
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Roamabout AP
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An Experimental Wireless Testbed for ATM Connectivity
PIs: Kaveh Pahlavan, Sidhar Pingali, Hemant Rotithor, and John Orr Personnel: Ali Zahedi, Andrew Messier, and Jared Robinson Sponsor: National Science Foundation Duration: August 1995 to January 1998 Volume: $258K ($158 from NSF and $100K matching fund from WPI)
Wireless Campus Testbed and Wireless Classroom
ATWATER KENT LABORATORIES
Wireless Access Point Electronic whiteboard Switch Router Campus Backbone Network Wireless Bridge Wireless Bridge
Fuller Laboratories
Wireless Bridge
Gordon Library
Bridge Wireless Wireless Bridge
Olin Hall
Bridge Wireless Wireless Bridge Wireless Bridge
Salisbury Laboratories
CWINS Wireless Backbone Network
Performance Evaluation and Deployment of Wireless LANs
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PI: Kaveh Pahlavan Personnel: Craig Mathias, John Rulnick, Jim Matthews, Jacques Beneat, Ali Zahedi, Yan Xu, Prashant Krishnamurthy Sponsor: WLRL alliance (Harris Semiconductor, DEC, Aironet, Cushcraft, Raytheon) Duration: June 1995 to June 1997 Volume: $200K
Radio Deployment Tool
Real-Time Wireless Benchmark Network Application Performance Monitor Log Filter Window Benchmark Parameters Window
PER/BER Performance Evaluation Testbed PER/BER testbed TX interface board to the PRISM wireless LAN adapter card
Performance of Transmission Techniques for Wireless LANs Minimum power requirements for different transmission techniques, 10 MHz system bandwidth.
Maximum attainable data rate for different transmission techniques with no bandwidth restrictions.
Real-Time Channel Simulation for Telecommunication and Geolocation Applications Telecommunication Applications Unit • SUO/SAS CWINS Short range (in and around buildings) measurements and modeling for telecom • SUO/SAS SAIC Long range (outdoor) measurements and modeling for telecom • GloMo program • Other important DoD programs suggested by the DoD program manager Smart Antenna Applications Unit • CWINS Angle-of-arrival measurements and modeling • GloMo program measurements with angle-of-arrival characteristics • Other important DoD programs suggested by the DoD program manager
PROPS im + Ch an n e l S im ulat o r
Geolocation Applications Unit • SUO/SAS CWINS Short range (in and around buildings) measurements and modeling for geolocation • SUO/SAS SAIC Long range (outdoor) measurements and modeling for geolocation • Other important DoD programs suggested by the DoD program manager Telecommunication devices Test Unit Antenna-array-based devices Geolocation devices
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Notebook Computers Pentium Class PCs HP 700 Workstations PCMCIA Wireless LAN Cards Wireless Access Points Point-to-Point Wireless Bridges Electronic Whiteboard ATM Access Switch with 1 FDDI and 12 Eternet Ports and Router HP Open View Network Node Manager HP LAN/WAN Protocol Analyzer OPNET Network Modeling and Simulation Software SPW Communication Systems Simulation Software HP EE Soft's Microwave Simulation Software 6 GHz HP-8753B Network Analyzer with S-Parameters Test Set 3 GHz Tektronix 7854 Digital Storage Scope 20 GHz HP 8559A Spectrum Analyzer 10 Mps HP 3780A Pattern Generator and Error Detector Electro Metrics Broadband Bicone Antennas (20MHz - 350MHz) Scala Electronics Directional Antennas (940MHz - 960MHz) Various Antennas (monopole/dipole/ whip - 20 MHz/500 MHz/1 GHz/5 GHz)
Facilities
Number of Units
20 8 2 35 6 6 Pairs 1 1 1 1 10 user licences 10 user licences 10 user licences 1 1 1 1 2 2 >10
Proprietary Software
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
Radio channel prediction and deployment software
Placetool radio deployment software (Windows) 2D ray shooting ray tracing software (Windows and Unix) 3D ray shooting ray tracing software (Unix) 3D image method ray tracing MATLAB scripts (MATLAB)
Network performance analysis software
Real-Time Wireless Network Application Performance Monitor (Unix) Real-Time Cellular Packet Data Network Application Performance Monitor (Unix)
Radio channel custom blocks for SPW
Contact Information
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
Professor Kaveh Pahlavan Director, CWINS ECE Department WPI Worcester, MA 01609 Tel/Fax: (508) 831-5634/5491 Email: [email protected]
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