Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, WPI, Worcester, MA CWINS Overview Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Presentation Outline Center for Wireless Information Network Studies Introduction Capabilities History of CWINS Current Personnel Project Sponsors Recent Projects Home RF Networks with Geolocation Urban Geolocation System Analysis and Demonstrator Wireless LAN for UMTS (WiLU) An Experimental Wireless Testbed for ATM Connectivity Performance Evaluation and Deployment of Wireless LANs Facilities Contact Information

Capabilities Center for Wireless Information Network Studies CWINS is an internationally renown compact wireless research laboratory with a successful history of research alliances with other groups in the industry and academia. Prominent features of CWINS include: Close ties with the world leading wireless industry of Finland, that includes Nokia Experience in technology and regulatory issues for commercial and military applications Experience in development of testbeds and tools for design and performance monitoring Experience as a corporate consultant in establishing wireless programs in several companies Experience in on-sight training programs in several companies Being a center for information exchange among different sectors of the wireless industry by publishing an international journal and organizing several international conferences

History of CWINS Center for Wireless Information Network Studies 1985Started as the first research program in the wireless field in the US 1986Was awarded the first NSF grant in wireless indoor networks 1989Founding member of the IEEE PIMRC at UK 1989Founding member of the IEEE ISSSTA at UK 1991Organized the first IEEE workshop in wireless LANs at WPI 1992Organized the third IEEE PIMRC in Boston 1994Started IJWIN, the first journal in wireless communications 1995Published the first graduate level textbook in wireless networks 1996Started the WLRL as an industrial research alliance 1996Organized the second IEEE workshop in wireless LANs at WPI 1997Started WILU project with Nokia and other Finnish agencies 1997Started design of Geolocation-Telecommunication networks with DARPA 1998Organized the ninth IEEE PIMRC in Boston 1999Received a Nokia fellowship to initiate an educational program with U. of Oulu, Finland

Current Personnel Center for Wireless Information Network Studies Full-Time Staff Kaveh Pahlavan, Ph.D., Director of the Center Jacques Beneat, Ph.D., Research Scientist Xinrong Li, Ph.D. Candidate Jeffrey Feigin, M.Sc. Candidate Part-Time Affiliate Staff Allen Levesque, Ph.D., Research Professor James Matthews, Ph.D., Consultant in Radio Design Craig Mathais, Farpoint Group, Consultant in Wireless LANs Pratap Misra, Ph.D., MIT Lincoln Laboratories, Consultant in Navigation Robert Tingley, Draper’s Laboratories, Ph.D. Candidate WPI Professors with CWINS Experience ECE department: Jin-Fa Lee (Antenna and Propagation), John Orr (Communication and Signal Processing), Peder Pedersen (Biotechnology), John M. Rulnick (Networking), Christof Paar (Cryptography) CS Department: Isabel Cruz (Vizualization), Bob Kinicki (Networking), David Finkel (Networking)

Project Sponsors Center for Wireless Information Network Studies Government Agencies: National Science Foundation, DARPA Local Industry GTE Laboratories, TASC/Litton, Bell Atlantic Mobile, BBN, Sierra Comm, Raytheon Company, DEC, Alta Group of Cadence National Industry: Savi Technologies (CA), Apple Computers (CA), Radio LAN (CA), Hewlett-Packard (CA), Motorola (IL), Texas Instruments (TX), United Technologies Research Center (CN) International: Nokia (FI), Elektrobit (FI), Sonera (FI), TEKES (FI), Finnish Air Force (FI), NTT (JAPAN), Jolt (ISRAEL) WLRL Alliance: Aironet, Cushcraft, Harris Semiconductors, Persoft, DEC Corporate Consulting: Nokia, Mercury Computers, WINDATA, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Honeywell, LK-Products, Finnish Academy, National Research Council Training: DEC, Sierra Comm, WINDATA, Codex/Motorola, NTT, Nokia

Recent Projects Center for Wireless Information Network Studies  Home RF Networks with Geolocation  Urban Geolocation System Analysis and Demonstrator  Wireless LAN for UMTS (WiLU)  An Experimental Wireless Testbed for ATM Connectivity  Performance Evaluation and Deployment of Wireless LANs

Home RF Networks with Geolocation Center for Wireless Information Network Studies PIs: Kaveh Pahlavan (CWINS) and Matti Lattavaho (CWC, U. of Oulu, Finland) Personnel: Xinrong Li, Jeffrey Feigin, Mika Ylianttila, and Juha-Pekka Makela Sponsors: Nokia Mobile Phone, Nokia Telecommunication, Finnish Air Force and TEKES Duration: April 1999 to April 2000 Volume: $340K (shared among CWINS and CWC)

Layered Geolocation Networks

Smart Home Networks

Urban Geolocation System Analysis and Demonstrator Center for Wireless Information Network Studies PIs: Kaveh Pahlavan and James Matthews (CWINS), Paul Creamer and Joseph Pizano (TASC/Litton) Personnel: Jacques Beneat, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Hamid Hatami, Yan Xu, and Mirela Marku Sponsor: DARPA, SUO/SAS Project Duration: June 1997 to January 1999 Volume: $1.2M (shared among TASC and CWINS)

Small Unit Operations Situation Awareness Systems (SUO-SAS)

3-D Overlay of one 4-Block Area in Brooklyn, NY. Power Coverage Prediction Urban Radio Channel Coverage Predictions

Fc = 1 GHz / BW = 200 MHz Peak value = dB Fc = 500 MHz / BW = 200 MHz Peak value = dB Fc = 90 MHz / BW = 100 MHz Peak value = dB Fc = 60 MHz / BW = 50 MHz Peak value = dB Local Wideband Radio Propagation Measurements

Wireless LAN for UMTS (WiLU) Center for Wireless Information Network Studies PIs: Kaveh Pahlavan (CWINS) and Jaakko Talvite (CWC, U. of Oulu, Finland) Personnel: Ali Zahedi, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Hamid Hatami, Yan Xu, Jari Vallstrom, Mika Ylianttila, Juha-Pekka Makela, and Roman Pichna Sponsors: Nokia Mobile Phone, Nokia Telecommunication, Sonera, and TEKES Duration: April 1997 to April 1999 Volume: $560K (shared among the two labs)

Non-Homogeneous Wireless Networks

Backbone + Internet X.Y Home Agent MH Roamabout AP Mobile IP Testbed

An Experimental Wireless Testbed for ATM Connectivity Center for Wireless Information Network Studies PIs: Kaveh Pahlavan, Sidhar Pingali, Hemant Rotithor, and John Orr Personnel: Ali Zahedi, Andrew Messier, and Jared Robinson Sponsor: National Science Foundation Duration: August 1995 to January 1998 Volume: $258K ($158 from NSF and $100K matching fund from WPI)

Wireless Campus Testbed and Wireless Classroom

CWINS Wireless Backbone Network

Performance Evaluation and Deployment of Wireless LANs Center for Wireless Information Network Studies PI: Kaveh Pahlavan Personnel: Craig Mathias, John Rulnick, Jim Matthews, Jacques Beneat, Ali Zahedi, Yan Xu, Prashant Krishnamurthy Sponsor: WLRL alliance (Harris Semiconductor, DEC, Aironet, Cushcraft, Raytheon) Duration: June 1995 to June 1997 Volume: $200K

Radio Deployment Tool

Real-Time Wireless Benchmark Network Application Performance Monitor Benchmark Parameters Window Log Filter Window

PER/BER Performance Evaluation Testbed PER/BER testbed TX interface board to the PRISM wireless LAN adapter card

Maximum attainable data rate for different transmission techniques with no bandwidth restrictions. Minimum power requirements for different transmission techniques, 10 MHz system bandwidth. Performance of Transmission Techniques for Wireless LANs

Real-Time Channel Simulation for Telecommunication and Geolocation Applications

Facilities Center for Wireless Information Network Studies

Proprietary Software Center for Wireless Information Network Studies Radio channel prediction and deployment software Placetool radio deployment software (Windows) 2D ray shooting ray tracing software (Windows and Unix) 3D ray shooting ray tracing software (Unix) 3D image method ray tracing MATLAB scripts (MATLAB) Network performance analysis software Real-Time Wireless Network Application Performance Monitor (Unix) Real-Time Cellular Packet Data Network Application Performance Monitor (Unix) Radio channel custom blocks for SPW

Contact Information Center for Wireless Information Network Studies Professor Kaveh Pahlavan Director, CWINS ECE Department WPI Worcester, MA Tel/Fax: (508) / For additional information on CWINS, visit our web site at