A mobile testbed for GPS-based ITS/IVC and ad hoc routing experimentation

Author

Welsh, Erik ; Murphy, Patrick ; Frantz, J. Patrick

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

27-30 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

796

Abstract

Past investigations into the formation of ad hoc networks and ad hoc routing have focused on computer simulations of mobile traffic. However, the proliferation of mobile electronic devices (mobile phones, PDAs, and laptop computers) combined with the commoditization of GPS chipsets has made realizable the construction of a large-scale testbed for both GPS and non-GPS aware ad hoc network applications. We present the Rice University shuttle bus (RUSH) project as such a testbed in its first stages of development, in which we have outfitted the shuttle bus system at Rice University with custom wireless and GPS hardware.

Keywords

Bluetooth; Global Positioning System; ad hoc networks; mobile computing; mobile radio; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network routing; Bluetooth; GPS; ITS; PDA; Rice University shuttle bus project; ad hoc networks; ad hoc routing; intelligent transportation system; inter vehicle communication; laptop computers; mobile electronic devices; mobile phones; mobile testbed; software; Ad hoc networks; Computer simulation; Global Positioning System; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Personal digital assistants; Routing; Telecommunication traffic; Testing; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, 2002. The 5th International Symposium on

ISSN

1347-6890

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7442-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPMC.2002.1088285

Filename

1088285