== 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 Projects and Organizations == [http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/docs/focus/GENI.html GENI Projects at WINLAB][[BR]] [http://omf.mytestbed.net/ OMF (cOntrol and Management Framework)][[BR]] [http://www.orbit-lab.org/ ORBIT Testbed][[BR]] [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. == Current Capabilities == The scope of work on this project is == Milestones == [[MilestoneDate(WiMAX: 1a Delivery of two NEC Release 1 802.16e base stations)]] [http://groups.geni.net/geni/ticket/23 status] [[BR]] [[MilestoneDate(WiMAX: 1b Validate open API capabilities of the WiMAX base station)]] [http://groups.geni.net/geni/ticket/93 status] [[BR]] [[MilestoneDate(WiMAX: 1c Import a GENI-compliant control framework from the ORBIT project)]] [http://groups.geni.net/geni/ticket/94 status] [[BR]] [[MilestoneDate(WiMAX: 1d First release v1.0 of GENI base station node software)]] [http://groups.geni.net/geni/ticket/172 status] [[BR]] [[MilestoneDate(WiMAX: 1e Demo basic functionality of base station)]] [http://groups.geni.net/geni/ticket/95 status] [[BR]] [[MilestoneDate(WiMAX: 1f VLAN connections to the GENI backbone network)]] [[BR]] == Project Technical Documents == [http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/WiMAX/GENI_WiMax_System_Engg_v0.1.pdf GENI WiMAX Project: System Engineering Summary][[BR]] [http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/WiMAX/API_wimax_v1.0-3.pdf API Specification for Virtualized WiMAX Basestation] [[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/] [[BR]] “Android: An Open Handset Alliance Project”, at: [http://code.google.com/android/ http://code.google.com/android/] [[BR]] ”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] [[BR]] “Wireless virtualization in GENI”, GDD-06-17, 2006, at [http://www.geni.net/GDD/GDD-06-17.pdf http://www.geni.net/GDD/GDD-06-17.pdf] [[BR]] 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. [[BR]] == Quarterly Status Reports == [http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/WiMAX/GENI_WiMax_QPR_4Q08b.pdf "WiMAX: 4Q08 Status Report"][[BR]] [http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/WiMAX/GENI_WiMAX_QPR_1Q09b.pdf "WiMAX: 1Q09 Status Report"][[BR]] [http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/WiMAX/GENI_WiMAX_QPR_2Q09.pdf WiMAX: 2Q09 Status Report][[BR]] == Spiral 1 Connectivity == (see [wiki:ORBIT] connectivity section.)[[BR]] == GPO Liason System Engineer == Harry Mussman hmussman@geni.net