Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 1 November 3, 2010 ParkNet: WiMax Marco Gruteser, WINLAB Rutgers Univ Ivan Seskar (WINLAB) Max Ott (NICTA) Thanasis Korakis (NYU Poly) November 3,
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 2 November 3, 2010 Motivation: Cruising for Parking US: $78 billion cost of congestion (time & gasoline) Cruising for Parking: Brooklyn: 45% Soho: 28% LA – Westwood village (small business district): 730 tons CO2 47,000 gal gasoline 950,000 VMT Source: D. Shoup
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 3 November 3, 2010 What if … Real-time Parking Availability Statistics? Drivers: Guide drivers to regions with available parking Cities: –Setting prices –maximum stays –where to install parking meters More informed travel decisions: public transit vs carpool vs car
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 4 November 3, 2010 Idea: Drive-By Sensing of Parking Spots Parking Availability Estimation Wireless Service Valid Parking Spot Map Rangefinder + GPS
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 5 November 3, 2010 Challenges Mining sensing data for parking spots Identifying legal spots Accurate positioning Requires extensive real-world data collection
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 6 November 3, 2010 Today’s Demonstration Brooklyn Poly 6 ParkNet Cars
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 7 November 3, 2010 GENI Backbone Network WiMAX Base Station Cloud Servers WiMax Client with Sensors Demo Configuration - Resources User ViewExperimenter’s View
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 8 November 3, 2010 Demo Configuration - Resources Sensor Apps RC OML AM Base Station Control App OML RC Experiment Description PubSub Server AM Control Network (CN) CN Experimental Network (EN) EN GENI Backbone Rutgers Aggregate OML AppsRC Brooklyn Poly Aggregate RC OML Server
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 9 November 3, 2010 ParkNet with GENI GENI has proven valuable by –Allowing cost effective experimentation with delay-tolerant data collection protocols on Wimax/4G cellular networks –Battle-hardened hardware and relevant domain knowledge –Providing tools for executing and orchestrating experiments across a set of mobile nodes –Tools to deploy and keep alive long running experiments (almost hands-off) –Monitoring & instrumentation plane to obtain and manage large amounts of measurements (data) Results to date Science: MobiSys best paper award Outreach: MIT Tech Review, CBC Online, etc We look forward to experimenting at more WiMAX sites and with more vehicles as GENI grows