NeTS: Medium: AirLab: Distributed Infrastructure for Wireless Measurements

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。 准确的无线测量对于部署的无线网络的持续增长以及无线创新的成功开发至关重要。由于部署无线网络和获得可靠测量所需的大量工作，当前的无线跟踪在环境的广度和方法的一致性方面都缺乏。 AirLab项目旨在通过部署分布式无线测量基础设施来促进对无线网络的有意义的分析，该基础设施可在不同的部署环境中产生一致且可比较的无线跟踪。AirLab提供核心定期测量以及用户驱动的实验，以及用于存储，访问和统计分析无线跟踪的集中存储库。 这些测量数据集的丰富性使研究人员能够检测和确认隐藏的趋势，并根据真实世界的观察得出有统计意义的结论。 所有AirLab测量都是公开的，研究界可以访问，从而降低了研究的进入门槛，使研究人员能够在没有部署本地无线测试台的前期费用的情况下进行创新。该项目将其研究成果整合到本科和研究生教育计划中。它还积极主动地寻求增加外地妇女和任职人数不足群体的人数。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Accurate wireless measurements are critical to the sustained growth of deployed wireless networks, as well as the successful development of wireless innovations. Because of the significant effort required to deploy wireless networks and obtain reliable measurements, current wireless traces are lacking both in breadth of environments and consistency of methodology. The AirLab project seeks to facilitate meaningful analysis of wireless networks by deploying a distributed wireless measurement infrastructure that produces consistent and comparable wireless traces over different deployment environments. AirLab provides core periodic measurements as well as user-driven experiments, and a centralized repository for storing, accessing, and statistically analyzing wireless traces. The richness of these measurement datasets allows researchers to detect and confirm hidden trends, and derive statistically meaningful conclusions based on real-world observations. All AirLab measurements are public and accessible by the research community, thereby lowering the barrier to entry for research and enabling researchers to innovate without the upfront expenses of deploying local wireless testbeds. The project integrates its research outcomes into the undergraduate and graduate education programs. It also proactively seeks to increase the number of women and underrepresented groups in the field.