The Orbit Radio Grid as a Flexible Large-Scale Community Testbed for Next-Generation Wireless Network Research

轨道无线电网格作为下一代无线网络研究的灵活大规模社区测试平台

• 批准号: 0725053
• 负责人: Dipankar Raychaudhuri
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0725053&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Orbit; Radio; Grid; Flexible; Large

The ORBIT Radio Grid as a Flexible Large-Scale Community Testbed for Next-Generation Wireless Network ResearchThe 400-node ORBIT radio grid facility at Rutgers was developed under the NSF NRT program (2003-07) with the objective of enabling realistic and reproducible wireless network experiments at scale. The ORBIT radio grid was first made available to research users on an informal basis in Oct 2005, and since then, has rapidly become a de-facto community resource for evaluation of emerging wireless network architectures and protocols. ORBIT is also being used as a proof-of-concept platform for validating wireless aspects of NSF?s GENI future Internet infrastructure.This project is aimed at supporting community release of the ORBIT radio grid testbed on a more formal basis. This involves several key technical upgrades necessary to support emerging experimental needs, as well as enhancements to service software and operations staffing necessary for a 24/7 shared testbed facility. Specific work items to be carried out in this project include:? Feature upgrades including support for software-defined radios, improved topology and mobility control, and wired + wireless network emulation.? Virtualization of the radio grid to support multiple simultaneous experiments.? Improved ORBIT user portal, along with enhanced software and operations support services.? ?ORBIT kit? development and establishment of an open-source software repository.Major deliverables of the project include community release of the ORBIT radio grid testbed with enhanced technical and service support features in year 2, followed by an upgrade with GNU/URSP2 software radios in year 3.

作为下一代无线网络研究的灵活的大规模社区试验平台的ORBIT无线电网格罗格斯大学的400节点ORBIT无线电网格设施是根据NSF NRT计划（2003-07）开发的，其目标是实现大规模的真实和可重复的无线网络实验。ORBIT无线电网格于2005年10月首次非正式地提供给研究用户，从那时起，已迅速成为评估新兴无线网络架构和协议的事实上的社区资源。 ORBIT还被用作验证NSF？无线方面的概念验证平台。该项目旨在支持ORBIT无线电网格测试平台在更正式的基础上的社区发布。这涉及支持新出现的实验需求所需的几项关键技术升级，以及增强服务软件和操作人员，以实现24/7共享试验台设施。本项目具体工作内容包括：功能升级包括支持软件定义无线电、改进的拓扑和移动控制以及有线+无线网络仿真。虚拟化无线电网格以支持多个同时进行的实验。改进ORBIT用户门户，沿着增强软件和运营支持服务。?轨道工具箱？该项目的主要成果包括在第二年向社区发布具有增强的技术和服务支持功能的ORBIT无线电网格测试平台，然后在第三年用GNU/URSP 2软件无线电进行升级。