During the 3 years of WiSHFUL, multiple important milestones were achieved following the initial planning of the project, surpassing it in many cases. The architecture of the WiSHFUL control framework was designed and implemented; supporting hierarchical, centralized or complete decentralized approach allows the user to select the design that fits best in each scenario under test. The definition and implementation of UPIs to support control of heterogeneous devices was completed and tested in 22 showcases over a wide range of supported devices and scenarios, 8 of them being publicly demonstrated in major events like INFOCOM, EUCNC etc. Wi-Fi, LTE, ZigBee, SDR based implementation, GNU based SDR implementations, MAC engines like TAISC and WMP, configurable antennas are all supported and the user can now control all of the above hardware or software platforms from within the same programming environment offered by WiSHFUL. On top of the WISHFUL UPIs, the intelligence framework was designed and implemented to support employment of AI approaches over the UPIs in order to close the control loop and support run time intelligent reconfiguration of a network device. In the last year of the project, WiSHFUL consolidated this AI approach, exploited co-simulation and brought solutions to real networks to battle problems like interference classification, predict performance of MAC schemes, inter-technology channel sharing and rate control. The Intelligence Repository has been made public to allow experimenters and innovators to reuse the intelligent models that were produces from WiSHFUL for further research and exploitation.
WiSHFUL is now used in 7 testbeds (all FED4FIRE compliant), supports 13 different hardware platforms, 3 operating systems, and 5 software platforms. Amongst them, the Portable Testbed that was designed and implemented to offer the ability for real world experimentation, supporting the complete list of hardware offered by WiSHFUL. The integration of a wireless backbone unleashes the potential for deploying the portable testbed in any environment without the need for any wired infrastructure. 5 Open Calls were launched over the 3 years of the project, attracting 66 proposals for experiments and funding 27 of them. Also 9 extensions were funded to improve the range of support of WiSHFUL to wireless technologies and AI models.
Multiple results from WiSHFUL are finding their way towards enhanced or completely new products from core partners but also third party (Open Call) partners. Standardization efforts were also made towards ETSI NTECH and IETF to align but also further evolve the related standardization activities.
Last but not least, some WiSHFUL numbers: 46 peer-reviewed publications at high quality conferences, 10 peer-reviewed Journals, 3 invitations for keynote speakers, 7 tutorials, 77 participants in training, 9 exhibitions, 22 showcases
