NETWORK RESEARCH LAB

WIMAX STATUS @ UCLA

Giovanni Pau

UCLA

gpau@cs.ucla.edu

NETWORK RESEARCH LAB

GTTI Cagliari 2

Status• Connection to Mesoscale Infrastructure

• Openflow switches are purchased and delivered• Backbone side Open Switch is Installed but yet to be confirgured• BTS side there is a missing 20-25meters of fiber that need to be run cross floors,

work order has been submitted on-hold for Facility Management to Proceed.

• Installation of the Airspan BST• Location selected (Top o Spraul Hall)• Pole Installed• On Hold for

• Power Supply • Network (we may go wireless on that)

• FCC Related• Renewed Experimental License• Coordination with Clear Started

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GTTI Cagliari 3

Deployment

Airspan BS will be on a 17 storey buildings which is built on a 150m hill.

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GTTI Cagliari 4

Envisioned Timeline• Connection to Mesoscale Infrastrucutre

• 3-4 weeks depending on the Facility management• Preliminary setup of the VLAN (backbone side) could start in about 1.5

weeks.

• Airspan Installation• About 4 additional Weeks

• 2 Weeks to Power• 2 Weeks for Installation

• Delays may come if Facility des not bring Power.

• Experiments• Planning multiple-path network-coded tcp experiments with MIT• Once Connected to ION we will be able to run Nation Wide

experiments.