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AAA/SWITCH Info Day 2010 Project Idea: A 4 -Mesh

AAA/SWITCH Info Day 2010 Project Idea: A 4 -Mesh. Thomas Staub and Torsten Braun University of Bern, Switzerland. A 4 -Mesh: Motivation. Not all locations are sufficiently covered with broadband network services for research and daily operation.

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AAA/SWITCH Info Day 2010 Project Idea: A 4 -Mesh

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  1. AAA/SWITCH Info Day 2010Project Idea: A4-Mesh Thomas Staub and Torsten Braun University of Bern, Switzerland

  2. Project Idea A4-Mesh: Motivation • Not all locations are sufficiently covered with broadband network services for researchand daily operation. •  Wireless Mesh Networks couldenhance network coverage ofthe universities.

  3. Project Idea A4-Mesh: Motivation II • Broadband network access to campus networks in remote areas / in case of events • Research and applications in the following fields require broadband network access in remote areas: • Environmental monitoring • Agricultural monitoring • Weather monitoring • Biology • Surveillance of restricted areas • Avoidance and investigations of environmental offenses •  Cost-efficient network access, easily deployable, integrated in normal authentication and authorization infrastructure (SWITCHaai)

  4. Project Idea A4-Mesh: Goals • Easily deployable, cost-efficient, and functional wireless mesh infrastructure including: • Authentication and Authorization • Network node authentication (SWITCHaai / IEEE 802.11x) • Client authentication (SWITCHaai / IEEE 802.11x) • Authorization of users and administrators (SWITCHaai / eduroam) • Accounting • Traffic accountable to individual users • Monitoring network conditions (self-awareness) • Distributed accounting architecture • Auditing • Detection of inconsistent or erroneous node states, autonomous recovery / alarms • Increased network robustness and low maintenance costs by self-healing mechanisms

  5. Project Idea A4-Mesh: Planned Activities • Indoor test beds (UniBE, UniNE) • Development networks • Outdoor test bed (Payerne – Neuchâtel) • Testing of A4-Mesh in a deployment for environmental research

  6. Project Idea A4-Mesh: Planned Activities • Pilot network at UniBE (area of INSEL hospital) • Pilot with real users, integration in existing campus WLAN infrastructures • Public demonstrations • Publicly available source code

  7. Project Idea A4-Mesh: Partners • Insitut für Informatik und angewandte Mathematik, UniBE • Institut d‘informatique, UniNE • IT services, UniBE • IT services, UniNE • SWITCH • We are currently searching for additional end users ( IT departments, environmental research, etc.).

  8. Project Idea A4-Mesh: Questions?

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