====== WING - Wireless Mesh Network for Next-Generation Internet ======

WING is a 3 year research project on Wireless Mesh Networks, sponsored by the Italian Ministry of University and Research and led by [[http://www.create-net.org|CREATE-NET]] and Technion. The project aims at fostering the scientific cooperation between CREATE-NET and the Technion through the creation of a top-level international research team in the area of algorithms and protocols for wireless networking, able to stay at the forefront of technological and scientific research through the integration of the different competences owned by the two proposing institutions. At the research level, the main project target is the development of novel algorithms and protocols for enabling wireless mesh networks as the standard access architecture for next generation Internet. 



===== Overview =====

Nowadays, we are observing a growing interest in WMNs from both the business and the academic environments. While commercial solutions adopt strictly proprietary solutions making interoperability between heterogeneous systems a key issue, there are significant efforts from nonprofit and research institutions in order to implement real world prototypes and testbeds based on non proprietary off-the-shelf technologies. The [[http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/roofnet/|MIT Roofnet]] project has demonstrated that it is possible to provide an 802.11b-based wireless network backbone infrastructure in a city like Boston (MA). The WING project aims at deploying a similar testbed in the city of Trento (Italy) for both indoor and outdoor scenarios. The insights gained by exploting such a testbed will be used in order to evaluate the performance of current protocols, providing precious guidelines for the design of innovative solutions. 

























===== Research directions =====

  * [[directions:traffic_aggregation|Adaptive traffic aggregation]]: A packet concatenation scheme capable of boosting the voice capacity of the network.
  * [[directions:opportunistic_scheduling|Opportunistic scheduling]]: An opportunistic scheduler addressing the //IEEE 802.11 performance anomaly//.
  * [[directions:qos_provisioning|QoS Provisioning]]: A integrated DiffServ framework providing soft QoS bounds.
  * [[directions:Holistic_network_management|Holistic network management]].  
  * [[directions:Mesh_Routing|Mesh Routing]]: Tree-based with Multi-Gateway Association Routing approach (TBMGA Protocol) 
  * [[directions:WMN-CA|Channel Assignment]]: Interference-aware Channel Assignment Algorithm



===== Howtos =====

  * [[directions:Running_roofnet|Running Roofnet]]: How to get Roofnet up and running on a generic x86 machine (e.g. your laptop).
  * [[directions:Device_driver_agnostic|Making Roofnet device driver agnostic]]: How to run Roofnet in ad hoc mode.

===== Contents =====

  * Software:
    * [[software:openwrt|Wing for OpenWRT]]: How to install and run Wing onto the PCEngines WRAP/ALIX boards using [[http://openwrt.org/|OpenWRT]].
    * [[software:notebook|Wing for x86 machines]]: How to install and run Wing on a generic x86 machine (e.g. your laptop).
    * [[software:openwrt-packages|OpenWRT Packages]]: Additional packages for OpenWRT (development branch).
    * [[software:click-elements|Click Elements]]: Elements for the [[http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/click/|Click]] Modular Router.
  * [[software:Architecture|Architecture]]: An overview of the system architecture.
  * [[hardware:hardware|Hardware]]: The hardware used in our testbed.
  * [[publications|Publications]]: Papers describing the achieved results.
  * [[links|Links on wireless mesh networking]]. Misc link on wireless mesh networking.










===== Job Openings =====

Check out the job openings in the WING project and the Pervasive Group [[employment:|here]]. For other openings at Create-Net, visit the career opportunities page [[http://www.create-net.org/create-net/cda/aree/index.php?area=5|here]]



===== Contacts =====

  * [[http://disi.unitn.it/~riggio/|Roberto Riggio]]
  * [[tinku.rasheed@create-net.org|Tinku Rasheed]]