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.

在NSF NRT计划（2003-07）下，开发了下一代无线网络研究的轨道无线电网格作为下一代无线网络研究的灵活的大规模社区测试床，其目标是实现现实和可重复的无线网络实验。轨道无线电网格首先在2005年10月以非正式的方式向研究用户提供，从那时起，它已迅速成为评估新兴无线网络体系结构和协议的事实社区资源。 轨道也被用作概念验证平台，用于验证NSF的无线方面未来的互联网基础架构。该项目旨在支持更正式的轨道无线电网格测试台的社区发布。这涉及支持新兴实验需求所需的几个关键技术升级，以及对24/7共享测试床设施所需的服务软件和操作人员配备的增强。在此项目中要执行的特定工作项目包括：？功能升级包括对软件定义的无线电的支持，改进的拓扑和移动性控制以及有线 +无线网络仿真。无线电网格的虚拟化以支持多个同时实验。改进的轨道用户门户以及增强的软件和操作支持服务。 ？orbit套件？开源软件存储库的开发和建立。该项目的Major交付成果包括2年级的轨道无线电网格测试床具有增强的技术和服务支持功能，然后在第3年进行GNU/URSP2软件无线电升级。