II-NEW: WiNEST: A Prototype for a City-scale "Living Laboratory" for Wide-area Wireless Experimentation

II-新：WiNEST：用于广域无线实验的城市规模“生活实验室”原型

• 批准号: 1629833
• 负责人: Suman Banerjee
• 金额: $ 60万
• 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: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-15 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1629833&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: II; NEW; WiNEST; Prototype; City

This project is building a city-scale experimental testbed, called WiNEST,comprised of cellular basestations, WiFi access points, and various static and mobile usage scenarios with wireless connectivity. The testbed spans a part of downtown Madison, Wisconsin, and beyond and allows for interesting new applications over a large coverage area. The infrastructure provides a sandbox in which researchers can prototype new ideas of wireless systems with unprecedented speed and responsiveness. It also supports experiments in emerging mobile applications, such as virtual-reality video streaming, intelligent transportation and Internet-of-Things. WiNEST is an academia-industry-government partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a local data center and ISP in Madison, and the city where each partner is providing different resources to enable this infrastructure.WiNEST has many new avenues of research and educational impact, including:(i) engages with a large community --- potentially all of UW-Madison students, staff, and faculty, city of Madison agencies, including public safety organizations, and Madison Metro Transit system buses;(ii) creates unique synergies between local academic institutions and technology partners;(iii) disseminates all key platform components of WiNEST through its public portals;(iv) supports a laboratory-oriented curriculum at the university for engaging undergraduate and graduate students through hands-on experience.The goal of this project is to create a preliminary prototype for a unique city-scale "living laboratory" for wide-area wireless experimentation, called WiNEST. WiNEST will be the first-of-its-kind outdoor testbed and infrastructure that allows researchers, local and remote, to run wide-area wireless experiments at moderate to large-scale. It combines commercial-grade 3G/4G cellular base stations backed with OpenFlow switches, uniquely programmable and sliceable WiFi hotspots that are backhauled via the cellular base stations, along with mobile and static usage scenarios. It leverages prior efforts of the PI in assembling significant experimental wireless infrastructure for conducting research, integrates them with real usage scenarios across the the greater Madison area.WiNEST is an academia-industry-government partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a local data center and ISP in Madison, and the city where each partner is providing different resources to enable this infrastructure. Experimenters using WiNEST have a unique opportunity to deploy their new services and experiments at scale. They have deeper programmability inside the network (in client devices, at the edges, and in certain parts of the core) and they will also have the advantage of operating with real users. WiNEST enables diverse types of experiments ranging from mobility strategies, handoffs, multi-path systems, edge/fog computing and the Internet of Things applications.

该项目正在建立一个城市规模的实验测试平台，称为WiNEST，包括蜂窝基站，WiFi接入点，以及各种静态和移动的使用场景与无线连接。该测试平台跨越了威斯康星州麦迪逊市中心的一部分，并允许在一个大的覆盖区域有趣的新应用。该基础设施提供了一个沙箱，研究人员可以在其中以前所未有的速度和响应能力对无线系统的新想法进行原型设计。它还支持新兴移动的应用的实验，如虚拟现实视频流，智能交通和物联网。WiNEST是威斯康星大学-麦迪逊分校、麦迪逊的本地数据中心和互联网服务提供商与城市之间的一个政府-行业-政府合作伙伴关系，每个合作伙伴都提供不同的资源来实现这一基础设施。WiNEST有许多新的研究和教育影响途径，包括：（i）与大型社区--可能是所有威斯康星大学-麦迪逊分校的学生、教职员工和教师，麦迪逊市的机构，包括公共安全组织和麦迪逊地铁运输系统巴士;（ii）在本地学术机构和技术合作伙伴之间创造独特的协同效应;（iii）通过其公共门户网站传播WiNEST的所有关键平台组件;（iv）支持大学以实验为本的课程，让本科生和研究生透过实践经验参与。这个项目的目的是为一个独特的城市规模的“一个名为WiNEST的广域无线实验室。WiNEST将是第一个户外测试平台和基础设施，允许本地和远程研究人员在中等到大规模的情况下进行广域无线实验。它结合了支持OpenFlow交换机的商用级3G/4G蜂窝基站，通过蜂窝基站回传的独特可编程和可切片的WiFi热点，沿着移动的和静态使用场景。它利用PI在组装重要的实验性无线基础设施进行研究之前的努力，将它们与整个大麦迪逊地区的真实的使用场景相集成。WiNEST是威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校（一个位于麦迪逊的本地数据中心和ISP）与每个合作伙伴提供不同资源以实现此基础设施的城市之间的一个迈阿密-行业-政府合作伙伴关系。使用WiNEST的实验者有一个独特的机会来大规模部署他们的新服务和实验。它们在网络内部（在客户端设备、边缘和核心的某些部分）具有更深层次的可编程性，并且还具有与真实的用户一起操作的优势。WiNEST支持各种类型的实验，包括移动性策略、多路径系统、边缘/雾计算和物联网应用。

项目成果

Augmenting Self-Driving with Remote Control: Challenges and Directions

• DOI: 10.1145/3177102.3177104
• 发表时间: 2018-02
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications
• 作者: Lei Kang;Wei Zhao;Bozhao Qi;Suman Banerjee

A Framework for Analyzing Spectrum Characteristics in Large Spatio-temporal Scales

• DOI: 10.1145/3300061.3345450
• 发表时间: 2019-08
• 期刊: The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
• 作者: Yijing Zeng;Varun Chandrasekaran;Suman Banerjee;Domenico Giustiniano