FIRE RoadmapCREW: Cognitive networking
Challenge:
Whether at home, in the office, or at conference venues, devices such as laptops, smart phones, or audio systems compete to access the scarce 2.4 GHz wireless spectrum, regularly resulting in slow or failing communication links. For example, a ZigBee-based sensor network used for home automation is likely to be interfered by Wi-Fi devices in the same environment.
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Download the new FIRE 2011 brochureCREW: Federated test platform
CREW: Cognitive Radio Experimentation World
By combining equipment and knowledge of four individual wireless test environments, augmented with advanced spectrum sensing solutions, the CREW federated testbed allows industry and academia to evaluate their wireless protocols and/or hardware in a controlled environment.
The CREW infrastructure is able to generate the requested amount of background interference, by replaying previously recorded traces of typical wireless environments such as the office or home. Running multiple identical tests on relatively expensive hardware, for example involving LTE traffic, can be avoided by recording the traces once, and then replaying them on a software configurable radio. The CREW federation allows traces that are recorded at one testbed location to be replayed at other testbed locations involving cheaper hardware. As a result, a single wireless solution may be tested in different emulated wireless environments in a fast and cost effective way.
http://www.ict-fire.eu/fileadmin/documents/use_cases/CREW_UC.pdf