Center for Wireless Information Network Studies

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Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
CWINS Overview
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
http//www.cwins.wpi.edu
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,
WPI, Worcester, MA
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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
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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

Introduction
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History of CWINS
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies

• 1985 Started as the first research program in the
  wireless field in the US
• 1986 Was awarded the first NSF grant in wireless
  indoor networks
• 1989 Founding member of the IEEE PIMRC at UK
• 1989 Founding member of the IEEE ISSSTA at UK
• 1991 Organized the first IEEE workshop in
  wireless LANs at WPI
• 1992 Organized the third IEEE PIMRC in Boston
• 1994 Started IJWIN, the first journal in wireless
  communications
• 1995 Published the first graduate level textbook
  in wireless networks
• 1996 Started the WLRL as an industrial research
  alliance
• 1996 Organized the second IEEE workshop in
  wireless LANs at WPI
• 1997 Started WILU project with Nokia and other
  Finnish agencies
• 1997 Started design of Geolocation-Telecommunicati
  on networks with DARPA
• 1998 Organized the ninth IEEE PIMRC in Boston
• 1999 Received a Nokia fellowship to initiate an
  educational program with U. of Oulu, Finland
• 2000 Fulbright-Nokia scholarship
• 2001 Organized the second IEEE workshop in
  wireless LANs at WPI
• 2002 Published the Principles of Wireless
  Networks A Unified Approach

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Current Personnel
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
Director Kaveh Pahlavan, Ph.D., Current Graduate
Students PhD Full-Time (5 WPI, 1 Oulu),
Part-time (2 WPI, 2 Oulu) MS Thesis (2 WPI, 1
Oulu), DR (10 WPI) Affiliated Staff Prashant
Krishnamurthy, U. of Pittsburgh Jacques Beneat,
Ph.D., Norwich University, Vermount 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, Drapers Laboratories, Ph.D. Candidate
Steven Howard, QUALCOM, Boston WPI Professors
with CWINS Experience ECE department Sergey
Makarov, Jin-Fa Lee (Antenna and Propagation),
John Orr (DSP), Peder Pedersen (Biotechnology),
Hemant Rotithor, Sidhart Pingali, John M. Rulnick
(Networking), Berk Sunar, Christof Paar
(Cryptography), CS Department Emmanuel Agu,
Isabel Cruz (Vizualization), Bob Kinicki, David
Finkel (Networking)
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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
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Sponsored Projects
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies

• Indoor Geolocation Science
• Real-Time Channel Simulation
• 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

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Indoor Geolocation Science
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
PI Kaveh Pahlavan Personnel J.
Beneat, X. Li, B. Alavi, M. Kanaan, E. Zand, N.
Alsindi Sponsor NSF Duration
September 2000 to September 2003 Volume
270K
Projects
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Projects
Elements of Indoor Geolocation
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Projects
Elements of Indoor Geolocation
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Real-Time Channel Simulation
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
PI Kaveh Pahlavan, Allen
Levesques, Jacques Beneat Sponsor DURIP
(DoD) Duration March 1999 to September
2001 Volume 237K
Projects
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Real-Time Channel Simulation for
Telecommunication and Geolocation Applications
Projects
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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)
Projects
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Projects
Layered Geolocation Networks
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Smart Home Networks
Projects
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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)
Projects
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Small Unit Operations Situation Awareness Systems
(SUO-SAS)
Projects
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Urban Radio Channel Coverage Predictions
Projects
3-D Overlay of one 4-Block Area in Brooklyn, NY.
Power Coverage Prediction
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Local Wideband Radio Propagation Measurements
Projects
Fc 1 GHz / BW 200 MHz Peak value -59.9 dB
Fc 500 MHz / BW 200 MHz Peak value -59.0 dB
Fc 90 MHz / BW 100 MHz Peak value -34.5 dB
Fc 60 MHz / BW 50 MHz Peak value -31.3 dB
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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)
Projects
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Projects
Non-Homogeneous Wireless Networks
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Mobile IP Testbed
Projects
Backbone Internet 130.215. X .Y
130.215.16.204
130.215.16.232
130.215.17.65
MH
192.168.253.1
Home Agent
192.168.253.24
MH
Roamabout AP
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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)
Projects
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Wireless Campus Testbed and Wireless Classroom
Projects
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Projects
CWINS Wireless Backbone Network
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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
Projects
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Radio Deployment Tool
Projects
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Real-Time Wireless Benchmark Network Application
Performance Monitor
Projects
Log Filter Window
Benchmark Parameters Window
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PER/BER Performance Evaluation Testbed
Projects
PER/BER testbed
TX interface board to the PRISM wireless LAN
adapter card
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Performance of Transmission Techniques for
Wireless LANs
Projects
Minimum power requirements for different
transmission techniques, 10 MHz system bandwidth.
Maximum attainable data rate for different
transmission techniques with no bandwidth
restrictions.
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Facilities
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
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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
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Contact Information
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
Professor Kaveh Pahlavan Director, CWINS ECE
Department WPI Worcester, MA 01609 Tel/Fax (508)
831-5634/5491 Email kaveh_at_wpi.edu
For additional information on CWINS, visit our
web site at http//www.cwins.wpi.edu