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Trådløse Trondheim (TrT)/ WirelessTrondheim and its TrT Network lab

Steinar H. Andresen, Dep. of Telematics, Norwegian University of Science and technology (NTNU) Email: [email protected]

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rondheim” Research and ”Business” ”TrT Access” WiFi open air network, with roaming (handover) and location service. A shared physical infrs structure that can be used by multiple service providers (ISPs) TrT Network Lab & TrT Service Lab

Service Lab Mobile services Radio Lab, New radio technologies ITS Lab ”The instrumented raod” Radio propagation research

TrT The first steps

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Wi-Fi

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Wireless Trondheim as a research area

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TrT Access (or ”Broadband commons”)

– A wireless network in Trondheim city for ”everyone” (initial user groups covers: NTNU, The County, The City administration Trondheim, The Electric Power Company of the town and Adressa the dominant regional newspaper). This gives a potential aggregated number of users in the range 40 to 50 000 (includes all students at the univ. and all high school students).

TrT Network lab

– A full-sized outdoor lab suitable for testing new networking technologies.

TrT Service Lab

– A lab for mobile service development and testing.

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TrT Access Coverage on opening day, 26. September 2006 - approx. 80 APs

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TrT Access Coverage on 1. Nov. 2006 - approx. 120 APs

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TrT Network lab Infra structure

• Physical Infra structure – Broadbands connections (Gb/s, fiber og Cat5+ kabel).

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NB: TrT Network lab has its own communincation links (not shared by TrT Access)

– Power Supply, – Mounting facilities and (agreements with property owners!) – Climatic safe housing for experimental equipment, etc.

• Preinstalled servers and experimental equipment – Measuring equipment – Programmable routers and access points – Servers to facilitate research, e.g a location server

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TrT Network lab Institutions and firms

Norwegian Road Authority Sør-Trøndelag County Traffic surveillance center Q-free AS NTNU: • Dept. of Electronics and Telecom.

• Dept. of Telematics • Dept. for Computers and Inform. technology • The Q2S Center Radionor SINTEF ICT Communication systems Communication AS Norwegian Road Authority, The directorate •Technology section NTNU: • Dept. of civil engineering and transport, SINTEF Technology and society, •Transport safety and - informatics Lab for behavior analysis at NTNU/SINTEF

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TrT Network lab as a research test bed for radio systems and mobile services

Novel radio systems and technologies

Antenna systems and implementation of MIMO ( Multiple input/output systems) Advanced modulation methods/systems Product design, cost efficient esthetical design and integration with other equipment along roads and streets. • • • •

Novel systems solutions in wireless access networks

Seamless handover between heterogeneous systems.

Prioritised handling of emergency calls (and other important traffic) - testing of principles to be utilised for crisis management. Pilot testing of new principles to ensure quality of service,, information security and correct payment/charging..

Principles of location determination and navigation, possibilities of comparing technologies..

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TrT Network Lab as a research area for Intelligent Transport Systems

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PROJECT EXAMPLES:

Testing of the technology platform for ITS (6 th. framework project “Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure System project”, ref. IST-2004-2.4.12-eSafety-Cooperative Systems for Road Transport) Instrumentation for – Measuring environmental data g – Alerts/events or incident reporting Cooperative driving/traffic behaviour Prioritising public transport and emergency vehicles, adjusting the traffic lights according to traffic patterns, and events, etc. ISA (Intelligent Speed Adaptation) technology testing the impact on drivers and traffic..

CALM/WLAN design combined with road light plant

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TrT Network lab - possible future roads

12 Infra structure sample cabinets and environment

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Road lamp integration?

14 TrT Network lab gives • • En city- wide physical high capacity communication network Basic instrumentation and functions: – Communication with measuring points – Mounting space/sites – Power supply – Location server that can determine the position of any WiFi device – Report services (enabling scheduled testing periods)- to be developed. This enables Basic instrumentation and functions A city- wide physical communication network • Project specific instrumentation tailored to every research groups needs.