UniGate: Modular universal wireless gateway
UniGate: Modular universal wireless gateway
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UniGate：模块化通用无线网关
DOI：
10.1109/wccais.2014.6916657
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2014
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A. Sheikh
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作者：
Emad A. Felemban;Mohsin Murad;M. A. Manzoor;A. Sheikh
随着无线标准的增加和从智能手机到笔记本电脑的无线设备的数量的增加，物联网的新概念即将到来，每个有形的“东西”都将有一个IP地址和无线连接。此外，网络物理系统通过从桥梁到水管到智能电网和智能交通系统的无线连接将城市基础设施互连在一起，这是一个很大的兴趣。并非所有这些设备都将使用相同的无线技术进行通信，因此它们很难交换控制和数据消息。此外，不同的无线技术标准正在使用在许多应用中，如蓝牙，WiFi， WiMAX等。每种技术都有不同的协议栈、媒体访问控制和编码机制来决定其工作方式、操作方式和技术规范。具有相同无线技术的设备可以连接在一起以交换控制和数据消息。随着可供用户使用的无线技术越来越多，一个主要的困难是将不同的无线技术设备互连在一起。例如，如果没有蓝牙加密狗，笔记本电脑就不可能连接到蓝牙设备。在本文中，我们描述了UniGate，一个模块化的通用无线通信网关，它使使用不同无线技术的设备之间的互连成为可能。此外，UniGate还可以作为所有连接设备的虚拟计算资源，实现本地化的硬件虚拟化平台。
With the increase number of wireless standards and the number of wireless enabled devices ranging from smart cell phones to notebooks, the new concept of Internet of Things where every tangible “Thing” will have an IP address and wireless connectivity is around the corner. In addition, there is a great interest of Cyber-Physical System interconnecting city's infrastructure together though wireless connections from bridges to water pipes to smart grid and intelligent transport systems. Not all of these devices will use the same wireless technology for communication and hence it will be very hard for them to exchange control and data messages. Moreover, different wireless technology standards are being used nowadays in many applications such as Bluetooth, WiFi, WiMAX etc. Each technology has a different stack of protocols, medium access control and encoding mechanisms dictating the way it works, operates and technical specifications. Devices with same wireless technology can connect together to exchange control and data messages. With the increase number of wireless technologies available for users, one major difficulty is to interconnect different devices with different wireless technology together. For example, it is impossible for a notebook PC to connect to a Bluetooth device without having a Bluetooth dongle. In this paper, we describe UniGate, a modular universal wireless communication gateway that enables inter-connectivity between devices using different wireless technologies. Moreover, UniGate serves as a virtual computing resource for all connected devices enabling a localized hardware virtualization platform.