Current Work
Wireless Testbed: Setting up a Bay area wide testbed for experiments with 802.11/16 point-to-point long-distance links
Wireless solutions for network connectivity in remote areas with no
existing telecommunication infrastructure can be orders of magnitude
cheaper than wired solutions. Meshes of point-to-point long-distance
wireless links between villages, augumented with a number of broadband
satellite connections seem to be one of the best connectivity choices.
Therefore we are conducting a study aimed at assessing the performance
of point-to-point wireless directional links. Our performance metrics
are bandwidth, delay, and power consumption, as a function of the
equipment employed (802.11 and 802.16 interface cards, directional
antennas, relays, signal amplifiers), and other parameters of the
connection (distance, hight of relay towers, weather conditions,
interference, etc.).
We are currently in the process of setting up a number of long distance
links in Berkeley and the sorrounding areas.
We are using high-power 802.11 radios and high gain directional antennas
connected to Soekris single-board computer based routers. We are also using cricket in combination with SNMP for monitoring and collection of link data.
More details on the links will be added.
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