Development of a dynamic symbiotic network planner and application to a living lab testbed

The concept of symbiotic networks is introduced as a way to improve the use of available resources and infrastructure and the overall performance of co-located wireless networks. An existing wireless network planning tool is extended with a symbiotic feature, which is able to create a new (symbiotic) network out of the different coexisting networks. This symbiotic planning tool is applied to a living lab testbed network in Ghent, Belgium. Feedback about reception quality at the testbed nodes is continuously given to the tool and the internal propagation prediction models are adapted accordingly in order to improve the accuracy of the network planning. The concept of this dynamic symbiotic network planner are presented.