Openlab & FLEX Experimentation with FIRE Wireless testbeds towards 5g FIRE FORUM 15-10-14, Brussels Thanasis Korakis, FP7 FLEX Project Coordinator University of Thessaly, Greece Nikos Makris, University of Thessaly, Greece
Projects’ Overview OpenLab: FLEX: Development of FIRE tools for testbed control and management, user friendly experimentation Extension of FIRE wireless testbeds Federation of the participating testbeds FLEX: Enhancing FIRE wireless testbeds with LTE and LTE-A resources Integration of the LTE specific tools in FIRE tools Mobility, RF-Emulation and monitoring frameworks
Resources available Wireless technologies available include: IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac IEEE 802.16e (Mobile WiMAX) LTE Rel 8 and Rel 10 (macro-femto setups) Mobile Robots, uncontrolled mobility OpenFlow backend USRP devices, Advanced Sensing engines Multiple sensor installations
Future Resources Towards enabling 5G research: Cognitive applications on LTE Exposing the maximum possible configurability of the commercial resources Deploying the appropriate tools which will boost the 4G research Cooperative communication over LTE Investigating potential of experimenting in the mmwaves band Porting of LTE entities over SDR for maximum flexibility in experimentation Exploring Open Source solutions Setting up testbed federations for increasing heterogeneity of the resources
Steps to 5G (defined by Net!Works SRA 10th edition) Wireless Network Topologies Multilayer Multi Radio Access Technology Networks Energy Efficiency Cooperation of Wireless Network Nodes Wireless Network Coding Radio Access Resource Sharing Basic Transmission Technologies Advanced Multi Antenna Transmission/Reception Disruptive Transmit and Receive Architectures Visible Light Communications Efficiency and Security at the Wireless Terminal Side Self‐Organised Networking and Cognitive Radios Inter Layer Network Optimisation Spectrum Packing Spectrum Sharing
Thank you for your attention! More info: FLEX Project Website: http://flex-project.eu email: info@flex-project.eu OpenLab Project Website: http://www.ict-openlab.eu/ email: contact@ict-openlab.eu