COOPLAB

A federated testbed environment for experimentation on wireless cooperative networks

Coordinatore	ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS    more  Organization address address: CHARILAOU THERMI ROAD 6 KM city: THERMI THESSALONIKI postcode: 57001 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: George Cognome: Giannopoulos Email: send email Telefono: 302310000000 Fax: 302310000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Greece [EL]
Totale costo	361˙800 €
EC contributo	268˙500 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES
Funding Scheme	MC-IRSES
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-07-18   -   2014-07-17

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS  Organization address address: CHARILAOU THERMI ROAD 6 KM city: THERMI THESSALONIKI postcode: 57001 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: George Cognome: Giannopoulos Email: send email Telefono: 302310000000 Fax: 302310000000	EL (THERMI THESSALONIKI)	coordinator	159˙300.00
2	UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6  Organization address address: Place Jussieu 4 city: PARIS postcode: 75252 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Frederic Cognome: Vaissade Email: send email Telefono: 33144277116 Fax: 33144275353	FR (PARIS)	participant	109˙200.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Cooperative communications constitute a new access scheme that tends to substitute traditional contention schemes for accessing the medium. The idea is to exploit the broadcast nature of wireless networks through retransmission of overheard information towards the destination, aiming at better performance as a result of spatial diversity. Initial research results are very promising, but are solely based on information theoretic models and simulations. These models involve simplifying assumptions and raise concerns as for the efficiency of the scheme in a real environment. In this project we plan to implement representative cooperative scenarios and study their performance in real-life wireless testbeds. The experiments will take place in already existing wireless testbeds of the partners. These will be federated under a common management framework and a special component of this framework will be developed to support experimentation in cooperative communications. The institutes participating in CoopLab exhibit a high level of experience in at least one of the two diverse scientific disciplines required to carry out the project successfully, theory of cooperative communications and wireless testbed implementation and management. Their expertise is proven by participation in relevant international research projects and numerous publications. The planned exchanges of researchers will enable transfer of know-how among them. The success of CoopLab will have a two-fold effect. It will advance the state-of-the-art in the field of cooperative communications through proof-of-concept real world experiments and it will establish a long-term sustainable collaboration of the partners through the federation of testbeds and exchange of knowledge.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

While creation of test beds for novel wireless cooperative networks was halted due to force majeure, a golden opportunity remains for a future EU-funded project to investigate this promising technology.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Wireless cooperative networks have in recent years been raising the bar in terms of improving wireless communication. Based on getting devices to share their antennas in order to advance reception reliability, the technology also promises to reduce power consumption radically. The EU-funded COOPLAB (A federated testbed environment for experimentation on wireless cooperative networks) project aimed to investigate if the theory behind this concept could become reality.

The project intended to examine problematic theoretical models and simulations that could often oversimplify assumptions and misrepresent potential efficiency, from the drawing board to reality. It looked at taking cooperative scenarios and examining how they function in actual wireless test beds.

Coordinated by the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) in Greece, COOPLAB hoped to establish wireless test beds in project partner countries, namely Egypt and Morocco. These nations boast the required conditions to launch such test beds and to demonstrate the potential of this promising communication technology. However, due to the political instability in these countries during the time of the project, the team was unable to complete its mandate.

Initially, the project team had begun building research collaboration on a global scale to spur new research opportunities in cooperative communications. It also planned to establish federated easy-to-use environments for cooperative wireless testing. In the future, another project could hopefully pick up where the team left off and re-examine this potentially advanced communication scheme as stability returns to the countries targeted.