1 Trådløse Trondheim (TrT)/ WirelessTrondheim and its TrT Network lab Steinar H. Andresen, Dep. of Telematics, Norwegian University of Science and technology.

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Trådløse Trondheim (TrT)/

WirelessTrondheim and itsTrT Network lab

Steinar H. Andresen, Dep. of Telematics, Norwegian University of Science and technology (NTNU)

Email: [email protected]

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TrT: “Trådløse Trondheim”Research and ”Business”

Radio Lab, New radio technologies

Radio propagationresearch

ITS Lab”The instrumented raod”

”TrT Access” WiFi open air network, with

roaming (handover) and location service. A shared physical infrs structure that can be used by

multiple service providers (ISPs)

TrT Network Lab

& TrT Service LabService Lab

Mobile services

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Wi-Fi

TrT The first steps

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Wireless Trondheimas a research area

• TrT Access (or ”Broadband commons”) – A wireless network in Trondheim city for ”everyone” (initial user groups

covers: NTNU, The County, The City administration Trondheim, The Electric Power Company of the town and Adressa the dominant regional newspaper). This gives a potential aggregated number of users in the range 40 to 50 000 (includes all students at the univ. and all high school students).

• TrT Network lab – A full-sized outdoor lab suitable for testing new networking technologies.

• TrT Service Lab– A lab for mobile service development and testing.

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TrT Access Coverage on opening day, 26. September 2006 - approx. 80 APs

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TrT Access Coverage on 1. Nov. 2006 - approx. 120 APs

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TrT Network lab Infra structure

• Physical Infra structure– Broadbands connections (Gb/s, fiber og Cat5+ kabel).

• NB: TrT Network lab has its own communincation links(not shared by TrT Access)

– Power Supply, – Mounting facilities and (agreements with property owners!)– Climatic safe housing for experimental equipment, etc.

• Preinstalled servers and experimental equipment– Measuring equipment– Programmable routers and access points – Servers to facilitate research, e.g a location server

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TrT Network labInstitutions and firms

Norwegian Road Authority Sør-Trøndelag County• Traffic surveillance center

NTNU: • Dept. of Electronics and Telecom.• Dept. of Telematics• Dept. for Computers and Inform. technology• The Q2S Center

SINTEF ICT Communication systems

NTNU:• Dept. of civil engineering and transport,

SINTEF Technology and society, •Transport safety and - informatics

Lab for behavior analysis at NTNU/SINTEF

UNINETT

Q-free AS

Radionor Communication AS

Norwegian Road Authority, The directorate•Technology section

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TrT Network lab as a research test bed for radio systems and

mobile services Novel radio systems and technologies

• Antenna systems and implementation of MIMO ( Multiple input/output systems)

• Advanced modulation methods/systems

• Product design, cost efficient esthetical design and integration with other equipment along roads and streets.

Novel systems solutions in wireless access networks

• Seamless handover between heterogeneous systems.

• Prioritised handling of emergency calls (and other important traffic) - testing of principles to be utilised for crisis management.

• Pilot testing of new principles to ensure quality of service,, information security and correct payment/charging..

• Principles of location determination and navigation, possibilities of comparing technologies..

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TrT Network Lab as a research area for Intelligent Transport Systems

PROJECT EXAMPLES:

• Testing of the technology platform for ITS (6 th. framework project “Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure System project”, ref. IST-2004-2.4.12-eSafety-Cooperative Systems for Road Transport)

• Instrumentation for– Measuring environmental data g

– Alerts/events or incident reporting

• Cooperative driving/traffic behaviour

• Prioritising public transport and emergency vehicles, adjusting the traffic lights according to traffic patterns, and events, etc.

• ISA (Intelligent Speed Adaptation) technology testing the impact on drivers and traffic..

• CALM/WLAN design combined with road light plant

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TrT Network lab - possible future roads

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Infra structuresample cabinets andenvironment

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Road lamp integration?

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TrT Network lab gives

• En city- wide physical high capacity communication network• Basic instrumentation and functions:

– Communication with measuring points– Mounting space/sites– Power supply– Location server that can determine the position of any WiFi device– Report services (enabling scheduled testing periods)- to be developed.

• Project specific instrumentation tailored to every research groupsneeds.

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