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Administrative Information
Name of the testbed:	iLab.t Wilab
Name of the principal organisation operates the Testbed:	Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT)
Type of organisation:	Association
Address of principal office of the testbed:	IBBT Zuiderpoort Office Park Gaston Crommenlaan 8 (bus 102) B-9050 Gent-Ledeberg Belgium
Name of administrative contact person:	Brecht Vermeulen
	Tel (administrative):+32 9 331 49 72
	E-mail (administrative):brecht.vermeulen@ibbt.be
Name of technical contact person:	Bart Jooris
	Tel (technical):+32 9 331 49 76
	E-mail (technical):bart.jooris@ibbt.be
Permanent employees:	yes
Number of employees:	1
Name of the principal organisation that operates the testbed:	Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT)
Type of organisation:	Association
Principal area of activity:	Research
Principal sector of activity:	Information technology

Technical Information
Brief description of the testbed:
The iLab.t Wireless Lab is an extensive wireless mesh and sensor network infrastructure installed at IBBT office premises. It consists of 400 802.11 wireless mesh network nodes and 200 sensor nodes, supporting a mix of sensor platforms. Its unique features include power control and measurement, and environmental emulation on all nodes. Easy deployment of specific software (protocols, middleware components ...) is available. The iLab.t Wireless Lab allows for easy and flexible testing of functionality and performance, of stress, interference and scalability, and log of the sensor and WLAN nodes' events.
Classification:	Sensor and wireless mesh network
Components:	200x IEEE 802.15.4, sensor nodes, 200x embedded PCs with 2 IEEE802.11 radios
Access networks:	WiFi,Other
Remote secure access:	VPN
Application keywords:	virtual reality, context awareness, VOIP, QoS, streaming applications, thin client applications, sensor applications (Sensor node -TMote Sky), distributed Java applications
Testing keywords:	Functionality,Interoperability,Performance,Other
Testing resources:	Environment Emulator, VoIP, Wilab toolbox containing visualisation and analysis
Main standards:	IEEE 802.15.4, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3af

Operational information
Description of the services offered:
The IBBT wilab team offers professional support during implementation as well as during operation. Wilab provides a permanent testbed for development and testing of sensor network applications via an intuitive web-based interface. Registered users can upload executables, associate those executables with motes to create a job, and schedule the job to be run on the testbed. During the job all messages and other data are logged to a database which is presented to the user upon job completion and then can be used for processing and visualization. In addition, simple visualization tools are provided via the web interface for viewing data while the job is running. Wilab wil facilitate research in sensor network programming environments, communication protocols, system design, and applications.
Planned evolution of the technologies used and services offered:
Extendable: Bluetooth, Software defined radio, any other sensor node hardware with serial interface (RS232, USB, … ), other sensor OS,..
Objectives of the testbed:
experimental validation of novel wireless architectures, applications and network protocols in a real-life large-scale environment, stress testing of wireless network solutions, interference studies
Governance model:
Testbed is managed by IBBT.
Target market:
research
Unique offering:
Environment Emulator on top of a large scale sensor and wireless testbed
Funding model:	Public funding
Access policies to the testbed:	Restricted access
Other access policy:
Intellectual property handling:	IPR is handled on project base (if multiple partners are involved). The backend servers are linux based, so home directories have the unix security levels and are thus secured to other testbed users.
Repository of test results:	yes
Access to repository of test results:	Restricted
General comment:
For more information, http://ilabt.ibbt.be
Upload a description file:	1231407561_ILabt folder.pdf

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