WING is a 3 year research project on Wireless Mesh Networks, sponsored by the Italian Ministry of University and Research and led by 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.
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 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.
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