Wireless 8O2.16 Multi-antenna mEsh Networks

WOMEN DIT-PRJ-06-020

Homepage http://www.womenproject.altervista.org/
Status NOT active project
DISI role Partner
Project type Research Project
Dimension National
Acquisition date 2005-12-22
Start date 2006-01-30
End date 2008-01-30

Project details

Project astract The WOMEN project aim to design, implement and test a mobile and self-organizing wireless mesh network architecture and related protocols, required to support multimedia Internet services to users moving at vehicular speeds, in a large-scale, dynamic and interference-limited (possibly high-faded) environment. At the core of the WOMEN system is the mobile mesh router that exploits multiple antennas techniques and multiple radios capabilities to self-establish and self-manage an adaptive, scalable, high-capacity,<br/>and easily deployable mobile wireless backbone.<br/>Specifically, the WOMEN system consists of three kinds of wireless nodes, namely the Mesh Base Stations (MBSs), Mesh Routers (MRs) and Mesh Clients (MCs). MBSs are stationary nodes equipped with Multi-Antenna 802.16-like radio interfaces that provide gateway/bridge functionalities, so to integrate the mesh network with existing broadband core-networks. MRs consitute the mobile wireless backbone and then they perform the self-organization and self-management tasks requested to sustain the dynamic wireless mesh backbone. To improve the overall system flexibility and interoperability, in the WOMEN vision, MRs may be also equipped with multiple (possible multi-antenna) radio interfaces as, for example, 802.11 and 802.16 cards. Finally, MCs are the users' devices that connect to the wireless mesh backbone in order to access the broadband multimedia services supported by the overall Radio Access Network (RAN). MCs may operate also in ad-hoc mode but, due to complexity issues, are supposed to be equipped with a single wireless interface card (typically, an 802.11 one). In the WOMEN vision, MCs may connect to the wireless backbone by using single-hop links or they may act as relays for the traffic generated by other MCs. For implementing the above sketched system, the WOMEN project will design and implement novel protocols and mechanisms exploiting the unique characteristics of the underlying mesh network to support the advanced QoS control demanded by the interactive multimedia applications running on top of it.
Keywords mesh networks, telecommunications
Fundings 220000 €
Partners
  • Universita' degli studi di Catania
  • Universita' degli studi di Napoli "Federico II"
  • Universita' degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
  • DIT - UniTN
  • Universita' degli studi di Firenze
  • Universita' degli studi di Napoli Federico II
  • Universita' degli studi di Roma La Sapienza

DISI Sub-project details

Project astract DIT's involvement in the WOMEN project is mainly related to:<br/>1) capacity and performance enhancement of wireless mesh networks<br/>2) testbed development
Keywords mesh networks, telecommunications, wireless networks
Fundings 38053 €
Manager Fabrizio Granelli
Participating RP