Wireless Sensing in GENI
From DOT’s Techy Blog:
The US is about to ramp up a large scale effort to provide a test environment for Future Internet research. The initiative is called GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovation) and its budget is immense (some hundreds of millions).
The scope for GENI encompasses fixed Internet, wireless Internet and wireless sensing from the hardcore physical layer space over routing to service environments.
But keep in mind, GENI only intends to provide the test environment; it does not perform the actual research to be tested. So you can think of GENI as taking Planetlab and blowing it massively up in terms of scale (so no surprise that Larry Peterson from Princeton University has a central role in GENI).
Within GENI, there is a task force to define the wireless environment together with the wireless sensing part. It is good to see that the current direction of the system specifications envisions the notion of GENI-compliant information gateways towards non-GENI sensor networks. This largely targets scenarios for participatory sensing, apart from rather static gateway scenarios where local deployments are remotely connected to some backend infrastructure.
The complete story here.
