'''Project Number''' 1657 '''Project Title''' Open Virtualized WiMAX Base Station Node for GENI Wide-Area Wireless Deployments [[BR]] a.k.a. WiMAX, WIMAX '''Technical Contacts''' Principal Investigator: Dipankar Raychaudhuri WINLAB, Rutgers University ray@winlab.rutgers.edu http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/docs/faculty/RayBio.html [[BR]] Co-Principal Investigator: Sampath Rangarajan NEC Laboratories America sampath@nec-labs.com http://www.nec-labs.com/research/broadband/broadband_mobile-website/staff.php [[BR]] Technical Staff: Ivan Seskar WINLAB / Rutgers University seskar@winlab.rutgers.edu http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~seskar/ [[BR]] '''Participating Organizations''' [http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/ WINLAB / Rutgers University, North Brunswick, NJ][[BR]] [http://www.nec-labs.com/research/broadband/index.php NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ][[BR]] '''Scope''' The scope of work on this project is to leverage a commercial IEEE 802.16e WiMAX base station product to prototype an open, programmable and virtualizable base station node that could work over a metropolitan area and connect with off-the shelf WiMAX handsets and data cards. This includes the following steps: 1) Develop an open/virtualizable WiMAX base station with external control and data API’s. 2) Import a control framework from the Orbit project, and implement GENI-specific software on an external Linux-based PC controller for the WiMAX base station, demonstrating basic GENI compliance: virtualization, slice setup & resource management, L2/L3 programmability, and opt-in for off-the shelf terminals. 3) Integrate the GBSN with backhaul options to validate and demonstrate the total access networking solution, including VLAN connections to a GENI backbone network. 4) Demonstrate the GBSN capabilities in a phased manner, starting with controlled lab tests of each GENI feature and then migrating to a small-scale outdoor trial with off-the-shelf WiMAX terminal equipment. 5) Develop a deployment plan for multi-cell WiMAX services in GENI, including guidelines for site selection, frequency allocation, network backhaul and equipment/operating costs. '''Milestones''' [milestone:"WiMAX: 1a Delivery of two NEC Release 1 802.16e base stations"] [[BR]] [milestone:"WiMAX: 1b Validate open API capabilities of the WiMAX base station"] [[BR]] [milestone:"WiMAX: 1c Import a GENI-compliant control framework from the ORBIT project"] [[BR]] [milestone:"WiMAX: 1d First release v1.0 of GENI base station node software"] [[BR]] [milestone:"WiMAX: 1e Demo basic functionality of base station"] [[BR]] [milestone:"WiMAX: 1f VLAN connections to the GENI backbone network"] [[BR]] '''Project Technical Documents''' Links to wiki pages for the project's technical documents go here. List should include any document in the working groups, as well as other useful documents. Projects may have a full tree of wiki pages here.[[BR]] D. Raychaudhuri and Editors M. Gerla, “New architectures and disruptive technologies for the future internet: The wireless, mobile and sensor network perspective” Report of NSF Wireless Mobile Planning Group (WMPG) Workshop, August 2005, at [http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/WMPG http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/WMPG][[BR]] Open Base Station Architecture Initiative, at: [http://www.obsai.org/ http://www.obsai.org/] “Android: An Open Handset Alliance Project”, at: [http://code.google.com/android/ http://code.google.com/android/] ”NEC’s broadband wireless access products”, NEC Corporation Technical White Paper, [http://www.neceurope.com/PDF/NEC_Mobile_WiMAX_WhitePaper_Ver-D1.4_060513-2.pdf http://www.neceurope.com/PDF/NEC_Mobile_WiMAX_WhitePaper_Ver-D1.4_060513-2.pdf] “Wireless virtualization in GENI”, GDD-06-17, 2006, at [http://www.geni.net/GDD/GDD-06-17.pdf www.geni.net/GDD/GDD-06-17.pdf] S. Paul, R. Yates, D. Raychaudhuri and J. Kurose, "The Cache-and-Forward Network Architecture for Efficient Mobile Content Delivery Services in the Future Internet", to appear in ITU-T Next Generation Networks (NGN) Conference, Geneva, May 2008. '''Spiral 1 Connectivity''' ''Links to wiki pages about details of infrastructure that the project is using go here. Examples include IP addresses, hostnames, URLs, DNS servers, local site network maps, VLAN IDs (if permanent VLANs are used), pointers to public keys. May also include ticket links for pending or known connectivity issues. Many projects will have a full tree of wiki pages here.''[[BR]] Location of equipment: [[BR]] Lab at WINLAB / Rutgers University, North Brunswick, NJ[[BR]] There is no GENI equipment at NEC Labs. Layer 3 connectivity[[BR]] WiMAX will connect through WINLAB (see [wiki:ORBIT] connectivity section.)[[BR]] Layer 2 connectivity[[BR]] WiMAX will connect through WINLAB (see [wiki:ORBIT] connectivity section.)[[BR]] IT contact at WINLAB: (see [wiki:ORBIT] IT contact.) '''GPO Liason System Engineer''' Harry Mussman hmussman@geni.net '''Related Projects''' [http://www.orbit-lab.org/ ORBIT Testbed][[BR]] [http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/docs/focus/GENI.html GENI Projects at WINLAB][[BR]]