Project Number

1793

Project Title

Open GENI WiMAX Base Station Kit for Campus Deployments
a.k.a. WIMXRG

Technical Contacts

Principal Investigator: Dipankar Raychaudhuri WINLAB, Rutgers University ​ray@winlab.rutgers.edu ​http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/docs/faculty/RayBio.html
Co-Principal Investigator: Sampath Rangarajan NEC Laboratories America ​sampath@nec-labs.com ​http://www.nec-labs.com/research/broadband/broadband_mobile-website/staff.php
Technical Staff: Ivan Seskar WINLAB / Rutgers University Ivan Seskar ​http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~seskar/

Participating Organizations

​WINLAB / Rutgers University, North Brunswick, NJ
​NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ

GPO Liaison System Engineer

Harry Mussman ​hmussman@geni.net

Scope

This project is aimed at the development, procurement and software support of a GENI-enabled WiMAX base station equipment kit for deployment on seven campuses. This is follow-on to the current Spiral 1 project on the prototyping and trial deployment of an open GENI WiMAX 802.16e base station. The project leverages a commercial 802.16e base station from NEC, replacing the standard WiMAX controller with an open GENI software implementation that supports virtualization and layer 2/3 programmability.

Current Capabilities

Milestones

MilestoneDate(WIMXRG: S2.a Develop Install/Ops Guidelines)?
MilestoneDate(WIMXRG: S2.b Deliver kits to two campuses)?
Procure and deliver WiMAX base station kit to GPO integration lab (subject to equipment availability)
MilestoneDate(WIMXRG: S2.c Upgrade base station software)?
MilestoneDate(WIMXRG: S2.d Demo with at least two sites)?

Campus Installation Checklist

WiMAX at Rutgers WINLAB
Contact(s): Ivan Seskar

Step	Description	Planned	Started	Completed	Comment
1	Identify Outdoor Site on Campus	-	-	Completed	-
2	Obtain FCC License	-	-	Completed
3	Identify Indoor Equipment Room on Campus	-	-	Completed
4	Install Wiring at Outdoor Site and to Indoor Equipment Room	-	-	Completed
5	Install Pole at Outdoor Site and Ground	-	-	Completed
6	Install Antenna at Outdoor Site	-	-	Completed
7	Install Base Station Outdoor Unit	-	-	Completed
8	Complete Wiring at Outdoor Site and to Indoor Equipment Room	-	-	Completed
9	Install Indoor Equipment Racks and Ground	-	-	Completed
10	Install 120VAC and -48VDC Power Feeds and/or Supplies	-	-	Completed
11	Install Base Station Indoor Unit	-	-	Completed
12	Complete Wiring of Base Station Indoor Unit	-	-	Completed
13	Initial Check-Out of Antenna and Base Station Outdoor and Indoor Units	-	-	Completed
14	Install Ethernet (VLAN) Switch, or Identify Existing Capacity	-	-	Completed
15	Install Linux Server(s) and Software	-	-	Completed
16	Connect Backbone Network	-	Started	-
17	Provide Reference Client Platform	-	-	Completed
18	Initial Check-Out of Campus WiMAX Testbed	-	-	Completed

WiMAX at Rutgers Bush Campus
Contact(s): Ivan Seskar

Step	Description	Planned	Started	Completed	Comment
1	Identify Outdoor Site on Campus	-	-	Completed
2	Obtain FCC License	-	-	Completed
3	Identify Indoor Equipment Room on Campus	-	-	-
4	Install Wiring at Outdoor Site and to Indoor Equipment Room	-	-	-
5	Install Pole at Outdoor Site and Ground	-	-	-
6	Install Antenna at Outdoor Site	-	-	-
7	Install Base Station Outdoor Unit	-	-	-
8	Complete Wiring at Outdoor Site and to Indoor Equipment Room	-	-	-
9	Install Indoor Equipment Racks and Ground	-	-	-
10	Install 120VAC and -48VDC Power Feeds and/or Supplies	-	-	-
11	Install Base Station Indoor Unit	-	-	-
12	Complete Wiring of Base Station Indoor Unit	-	-	-
13	Initial Check-Out of Antenna and Base Station Outdoor and Indoor Units	-	-	-
14	Install Ethernet (VLAN) Switch, or Identify Existing Capacity	-	-	-
15	Install Linux Server(s) and Software	-	-	-
16	Connect Backbone Network	-	-	-
17	Provide Reference Client Platform	-	-	-
18	Initial Check-Out of Campus WiMAX Testbed	-	-	-

WiMAX at NEC America
Contact(s): Sampath Rangarajan

Step	Description	Planned	Started	Completed	Comment
1	Identify Outdoor Site on Campus	-	-	-	-
2	Obtain FCC License	-	Started	-
3	Identify Indoor Equipment Room on Campus	-	-	-
4	Install Wiring at Outdoor Site and to Indoor Equipment Room	-	-	-
5	Install Pole at Outdoor Site and Ground	-	-	-
6	Install Antenna at Outdoor Site	-	-	-
7	Install Base Station Outdoor Unit	-	-	-
8	Complete Wiring at Outdoor Site and to Indoor Equipment Room	-	-	-
9	Install Indoor Equipment Racks and Ground	-	-	-
10	Install 120VAC and -48VDC Power Feeds and/or Supplies	-	-	-
11	Install Base Station Indoor Unit	-	-	-
12	Complete Wiring of Base Station Indoor Unit	-	-	-
13	Initial Check-Out of Antenna and Base Station Outdoor and Indoor Units	-	-	-
14	Install Ethernet (VLAN) Switch, or Identify Existing Capacity	-	-	-
15	Install Linux Server(s) and Software	-	-	-
16	Connect Backbone Network	-	-	-
17	Provide Reference Client Platform	-	-	-
18	Initial Check-Out of Campus WiMAX Testbed	-	-	-

Project Technical Documents

See ​WiMAX Meso-Scale Deployment Integration references and documents.

Quarterly Status Reports

​Spiral 2 Review

Spiral 2 Connectivity

See ORBIT connectivity section.

Related Projects

Campus deployment projects:
WiMAX at Columbia University
WiMAX at Polytechnic Institute of NYU
WiMAX at UCLA
WiMAX at University of Colorado at Boulder
WiMAX at UMass Amherst
WiMAX at University of Wisconsin
WiMAX at BBN Technologies

​WIMAX Design and Prototype
​ORBIT Design and Prototype
​OMF (cOntrol and Management Framework)
​ORBIT Testbed

​GENI Projects at WINLAB