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GREEN WIRELESS NETWORKING: GREENET

GREENET is a Marie-Curie Initial Training Network focused on cognitive and cooperation paradigms for achieving reduction of the power consumption in wireless networks. University of Trento is one of the partners of the project, which is coordinated by UPC and CTTC (Spain).
Official website of the GREENET project

POWER METERING: ENERGINO

Related to this project, we developed an open hardware / open software solution for low cost power consumption measurement jointly with the CREATE-NET research center. The platform is called Energino. Further details are available here.

Wireless 8O2.16 Multi-antenna mEsh Networks (WOMEN)

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, and easily deployable mobile wireless backbone.
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.
The WOMEN project continued as WORLD (Wireless Multiplatform MIMO Active Access Networks for QoS-demanding Multimedia Delivery). Below you can find a video of the final demo of the project:

WOMEN/WORLD Testbed in Trento

The testbed of the project was implemented in Trento as an indoor/outdoor network. The location of the interconnected networks is represented in the following map:


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Testbed Configuration

The testbed consists of two indoor wireless mesh networks interconnected by a long-haul HyperLAN/2 link.
Each indoor network is based on programmable Access Points based on the RoofNet software developed by MIT.
The two networks are based at DISI - University of Trento and Create-Net, respectively.
The AP configuration (including data link to the Internet) and topology is illustrated below for the installation at the Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science DISI).