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The WiNGS laboratory hosts an outdoor, vehicular, wireless testbed with support for various wide-area experimentation efforts, called MadBed.
Currently, MadBed consists of two wireless nodes mounted on specific city-buses operated by the Madison Metro Transit System.
Testbed Pictures
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| Google Earth Interface interactive kmz mp4 |
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| Google Maps Interface interactive live demo |
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| Infrastructure Data Flow |
People
How to access
The testbed nodes are remotely accessible and programmable. Each node consists of a Intel Core-2 Duo 2.0 GHz laptop, with WiFi interfaces, a 3G EVDO rev. A interface, and a vehicular mobile router for providing Internet access to the bus passengers. We also have a remote bus tracking interface that allows us to locate the position of the buses in real-time.
Access to this testbed is currently limited to UW-Madison faculty and students. Please email Prof. Suman Banerjee for access and account information.
Papers
- A City-Wide Vehicular Infrastructure for Wide-Area Wireless Experimentation. Justin Ormont, Jordan Walker, Suman Banerjee, Sridhar Machiraju, Mukund Seshadri, Ashwin Sridharan. WinTECH Workshop (co-located with ACM MobiCom), Burlingame, CA, September 2008. pdf
- A Measurement Study of a Commercial-grade Urban WiFi Mesh. Vladimir Brik, Shravan Rayanchu, Sayandeep Sen, Vivek Shrivastava, Suman Banerjee. Internet Measurement Conference, Greece, October 2008. pdf
Demos
- Continuous Monitoring of Wide-Area Wireless Networks: Data Collection and Visualization. Justin Ormont, Jordan Walker, Suman Banerjee. MobiCom Conference & WinTECH Workshop (co-located with ACM MobiCom), Burlingame, CA, September 2008. mp4 google earth demo google maps demo
- Client-Assisted Monitoring of Large Scale Wireless Networks. Justin Ormont, Jordan Walker, Suman Banerjee. Sigmetrics Conference, Annapolis, MD, June 2008.
