EAGER: A Feasibility Study for a Wide-Area WiMAX Infrastructure for Wireless Experimentation

EAGER：用于无线实验的广域 WiMAX 基础设施的可行性研究

• 批准号: 1555426
• 负责人: Suman Banerjee
• 金额: $ 21.7万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1555426&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Feasibility; Study; Wide; Area

This project is evaluating the feasibility of an outdoor wireless experimentation facility that leverages WiMAX base stations and clients. WiMAX has been one of the candidate standards for 4G cellular networks, and is technologically fairly similar to the more popular 4G standards, namely LTE. The experimentation facility, if successful, will allow researchers (both local to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and external) to deploy new types of wireless services on them and experiment with them in a realistic manner. However, building such an experimental facility is a significant challenge due to various issues related to design, operations, maintainability, and usability. The goal of this project is to evaluate the feasibility and define one possible way to implement such an experimental infrastructure in the future.To create a preliminary prototype to evaluate feasibility, the researchers at UW-Madison are deploying a small number of commercial-grade wireless base stations at various outdoor locations in and around the university campus and beyond. The researchers are also deploying different client devices to test the functioning of the infrastructure to evaluate various strategies of acquiring users in the system. Furthermore, the project is also setting up appropriate network connectivity that can in the future provide suitable isolation between some of the more critical functions and the more experimental ones on the infrastructure. The project is being realized through an academia-industry partnership in the Madison area.

该项目正在评估利用WiMAX基站和客户端的室外无线实验设施的可行性。WiMAX一直是4G蜂窝网络的候选标准之一，并且在技术上与更流行的4G标准（即LTE）相当相似。实验设施，如果成功的话，将允许研究人员（无论是当地的威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校和外部）部署新型的无线服务，并与他们在一个现实的方式进行实验。然而，由于与设计、操作、可维护性和可用性相关的各种问题，建造这样的实验设施是一个重大挑战。该项目的目标是评估可行性，并确定一种可能的方式来实现这样的实验基础设施在未来。为了创建一个初步的原型，以评估可行性，在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的研究人员正在部署少量的商业级无线基站在各种户外地点和周围的大学校园和超越。研究人员还部署了不同的客户端设备来测试基础设施的功能，以评估系统中获取用户的各种策略。此外，该项目还建立了适当的网络连接，以便将来在基础设施上的一些较关键的功能和较实验性的功能之间提供适当的隔离。该项目正在通过麦迪逊地区的一个农业-工业伙伴关系来实现。