Cluster E and WiMAX Deployment Call on Jan 27, 2011

Attendees

BBN Technologies Harry Mussman, Tony Michel, Manu Gosain, Heidi Dempsey
NEC Laboratories America Sampath Rangarajan
WINLAB Ivan Seskar, Ray Raychaudhuri, ?
Columbia Univ SungHoon Seo
Polytechnic Institute of NYU Thanasis Korakis
UCLA Giovanni Pau
Colorado Dirk Grunwald
UMass Amherst Brian Lynn
Wisconsin Suman Banerjee, Derek Meyer, Josh Hare

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Deployment Status (one slide from each campus)

Columbia University (1770) PI: Henning Schulzrinne SungHoon Seo: slides​

Polytechnic Institute of NYU (1751) PI: Thanasis Korakis Thanasis: ​slides Focusing on measurements with iperf; many variations in urban area.

UCLA (1797) PI: Mario Gerla, Giovanni Pau Giovanni: Focusing on debugging driver; Xen with 6250 via minipci; can see Clearwire, but not GENI; throughput of 1 - 6 Mb/s; need to put dialog on mailing list.

Colorado: (1768) PI: Dirk Grunwald Univ. of Colorado, Boulder Dirk: Have built new physically-small server, ubuntu, added quad ethernet; to fit near IDU; need campus IT to backhaul ehternet; so far, only windows clients.

UMass Amherst (1731) PI: Mark Corner, Brian Lynn Brian: ​slides BS setup; RFP out for installation; Xen VM with 6250 via USB; can't get to recognize GENI profile.

Wisconsin (1724) PI: Suman Banerjee Derek Meyer: ​slides BTS working indoors, power at 0dBm plus attenuator; connected to USB210 (beceem) client; ping with delay of 100ms. ASN GW server power supply failed; Ivan has ordered a new one, expect arrival soon. (Ivan: min delay approx 80ms.)

BBN Technologies, Cambridge MA Tony Michel on range and capacity: (see below)

Rutgers (Ivan Seskar) Ivan:

Deployment Status Summary

On Jan 27:

Campus	Who	Indoors	Outdoors	Using Intel 6250 modem?	Access to GENI backbone?	Comments
Columbia University	Jan Janak	Yes	Plan Feb 2011	Yes	?	Indoor testing started; received info request from Clearwire
Polytechnic Institute of NYU	Thanasis Korakis	-	Yes	Yes	?	Working on mobile stations and measurements
University of California, Los Angeles	Giovanni Pau	-	Yes	Intel 5130 modem	Campus via CENIC to I2 for Internet	Outdoor testing starting
University of Colorado, Boulder	Dirk Grunwald	Yes	Plan Feb 2011	x	Pricing campus tunnel to I2	Working with campus IT; outdoor testing started
University of Massachusetts	Brian Lynn	Plan soon	Plan March 2011	Yes, with USB, under Xen	I2	Facility plan revised; prelim shading analysis completed
University of Wisconsin, Madison	Derek Meyer	Yes	Plan Feb 2011	x	I2 is in next lab	Plant mgmt to install on Waisman Ctr
BBN Technologies	Tony Michel	-	Yes	Yes	I2, NLR	Outdoor iperf testing underway
Rutgers University	Ivan Seskar	-	Yes	Yes	I2	Plan Bush Campus install by Feb 2011

Software Installation

Documentation and procedures (Manu Gosain) Finally able to see some parameters in BTS, with early WiMAX RF GS, showing WiMAX protocol adaptation.

Mobile Stations

Linux PC with Intel WiMAX card (Tony Michel and Tom Cahill) Working towards building an image from scratch.

HTC EVO handset (Giovanni Pau) Will get one in Europe, end of Feb, Vodaphone dealer, unlocked. How can we get more?

Experiments

Range and capacity at BBN (Tony Michel and Tom Cahill) Testing with iperf; reliable up to 0.25mi, rates from 1 to 13 Mb/s; other times, won't connect, and ul seems to be the limit; finally able to see some parameters in BTS, with WiMAX RF GS, showing WiMAX protocol adaptation.
Suman at Wisc: Has done lots of drive tests, results consistent; Cisco 8-element array at BS; Cisco desktop modem in vehicle, with patch antenna; up to 1 mile.
Results to date. Parameters to change seeking greater range.

Range and capacity expectations (Sampath Rangarajan) Can NEC provide guidance on what to expect? Can NEC verify/suggest parameters to change?
Sampath: If we provide data, he will query NEC in Japan.
Possible parameters to change: HARQ; pwoer level; add 2nd ODU and antenna for MIMO.
Rajesh can help.

Establishing an experiment exchange (Harry Mussman) Where? this wiki? When to start? Who can help?
Yes, GENI wiki OK.
Start experimenter mailing list (Ivan, Harry)

GENI WiMAX Licenses

Campus	Call Sign	Frequency [MHz]	Location	Comment
Columbia University	WF2XIU	2590	NL 40-48-34; WL 73-57-36
Polytechnic Institute of NYU	WF2XJM	2590	NL 40-41-41; WL 73-59-09
	WF2XJM	2610	NL 40-41-39; WL 73-59-10
University of Colorado, Boulder	WF2XJV	2572	NL 39-59-53; WL 105-15-07
	WF2XJV	2572	NL 40-00-24; WL 105-16-17
	WF2XJV	2572	NL 40-00-26; WL 105-15-47
	WF2XJV	2572	NL 40-00-29; WL 105-16-04
Universty of California, Los Angeles	WF2XLG	2572, 2590	NL 34-04-09; WL 118-26-36
	WF2XLG	2572, 2590	NL 34-04-19; WL 118-27-05
	WF2XLG	2572, 2590	NL 34-04-00; WL 118-26-31
University of Massachusetts	WF2XGQ	2590	NL 42-23-37; WL 72-31-55
BBN Technologies	WF2XHS	2512.5 (5 MHz)	NL 42-23-18; WL 71-08-57
	WF2XHD	2590	NL 42-23-18; WL 71-08-57
University of Wisconsin, Madison		2545
Rutgers University	WE2XWE	2590	NL 40-31-17; WL 74-27-40
	WE2XWE	2610	NL 40-28-05; WL 74-26-44