4.2) New services: Multiple Base-Station Mgmt Srvc and Data-Path GW Srvc

4:10pm
Ivan Seskar (Rutgers WINLAB) and Davide Pesavento (UCLA)

• Multiple Base-Station Mgmt Srvc:
  

• 1) Have updated WiMAX RF AggMgr for NEC base station to 2.5.3+; additional updates coming
  
  • Feeds management data to centralized DB at WINLAB, for GENI-wide monitoring
    
  • Due: ?
    

• 2) New WiMAX RF AggMgr for Airspan base station
  
  • Provides configuration, to replace Netspan; now running
    
  • Provides node authorization, and measurements per client
    
  • Provides global measurements, for centralized monitoring
    
  • Alpha version due: 12/1/12
    
  • First version due: 1/15/13
    
  • Could BBN, NYU Poly begin testing early version, to replace Netspan?
    
  • Could early version be shipped to sites on yellow node, with OMF/OML?
    

• 3) Build unified WiMAX RF AggMgr that can control multiple BSs, either NEC and/or Airspan, with same API
  
  • Should be useful for handover/multi-homing functions: shared white list of MS, allowed to connect to one BS or another
    
  • What other features are needed?
    
  • First version due: 3/15/13
    

What are next steps?

• Finalize features for WiMAX RF AggMgr releases (due 11/15/12)
  
• Establish delivery schedule for WiMAX RF AggMgr releases
  
• Could there be an earlier version of WiMAX RF AggMgr, that provides just basic functions, and be manually configured? released by 12/1/12?
  
• Establish acceptance test plan by BBN, NYU Poly, for WiMAX RF AggMgr releases