Demonstration Day Results

The WIDENS project organised a public Demonstration Day on January 26 th 2006 in Sophia Antipolis, near Nice in France.

The Demonstration Day consisted of a mix of presentations and demontrations.

The presentations consisted of :

•  An introduction to the Demonstration Day, by V. Conan

•  WIDENS and the future European public safety, by D. Berrouard

•  WIDENS Medium Access Control overview

•  Overview of the WIDENS IP routing layer

•  Demonstration report (D5.3)

 

Outdoor Demonstration Scenario

 

 

The trial consisted of five prototype nodes equipped with multi-antenna transceivers to demonstrate the benefits of MIMO signal processing in an Ad-Hoc networking environment.

 

Each node is an RT Linux based PC equipped with the Dual Channel PCMCIA card. Each one implements the full IP/MAC/PHY stack. The nodes are organised as an ad-hoc IP network and the network was made up of two clusters with three mobile nodes, one being connected at some point with both cluster-heads. This five node hot spot is connected to a LAN through an IP gateway.

 

Specifically the trial demonstrated:

•  Multi-hop relaying for voice communication and access to data base replica

•  High bit-rates for live video surveillance

•  Interconnection with the internet and fleet monitoring control room application

•  Cluster-Head Synchronization, Multi-channel operation and MIMO signal processing

•  Four classes of Quality of Service and Conditional Access Control

•  Authentication of nodes to prevent IP spoofing

 

For more information, please refer to the Demonstration Report.