Periodic Reporting for period 3 - WiSHFUL (Wireless Software and Hardware platforms for Flexible and Unified radio and network controL)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2017-01-01 do 2018-04-30
1. To offer open, flexible & adaptive software and hardware platforms for intelligent radio and network control allowing rapid prototyping of innovative end-to-end wireless solutions and systems in different vertical markets (manufacturing, smart cities, home, office, healthcare, transportation, logistics, environmental monitoring, etc.).
2. To design and realize a software framework for supporting intelligence based on decomposing cognitive radio network operation into individual data processing tasks.
3. To offer advanced wireless test facilities that follow the current de facto standards in FIRE, set by the FED4FIRE project and extend them.
4. To offer portable facilities that can be deployed at any location allowing validation of innovative wireless solutions in the real world (with realistic channel propagation and interference characteristics).
5. To extend the WiSHFUL facilities with additional testbeds, hardware and software modules, offering complementary or novel radio hardware/software platforms, supporting experimentation with new technologies such as mmWave (WiGig 60GHz and IEEE802.11ad) full duplex radio, IoT testbeds, smart antennas, etc.
6. To attract and support experimenters for wireless innovation creation targeting different classes of experimenters via different open call mechanisms tailored to the specific classes (industrial relevance for SME versus level of innovation for academia).
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
The second target is met with the design and implementation of the portable testbed that provides the flexibility to run innovative experiments in the real world and not in a isolated room with predefined wireless characteristics. Innovative experiments can now be executed faster, with a steep learning curve from the side of the user of the WiSHFUL framework and can lead to new innovative products that would create revenue for the experimenters much faster than with static experimentation testbeds. Such tools will provide the players in the wireless innovation market to move forward and test thoroughly new ideas and possible products with minimum overhead, leading to market growth while on the same time it will initiate new employment opportunities for IT researchers and engineers.