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Leader: Prof. Leandros Tassiulas, CERTH Wireless will be the dominant mode of internet access for end users in the near future. Technologies such as Wi-Fi and WiMAX will provide broadband wireless access. However, bandwidth limitations of the wireless channel, interference from multiple users operating in the same band and channel variations due to fading become bottlenecks for typical multimedia applications that require high bandwidth and an error-resilient communication medium. Thus, today's wireless networks need a redesign of the traditional protocols in order to overcome the limitations and support the increasing bandwidth demand. As experimentation gradually becomes one of the de facto approaches for benchmarking, it is important to study new wireless protocols in a real environment. The implementation of new mechanisms and the conducting of experiments in a test bed can give significant insights about the design and the efficiency of these new mechanisms. The main objectives of this work package are to integrate wireless technologies into a global large-scale research infrastructure, and to define a common framework for conducting experiments in all the various OneLab wireless testbeds. These goals appear challenging, due to the extreme heterogeneity of wireless networks, both in terms of technologies and in terms of networking architectures. To achieve them, the activities performed in this work package follow three main lines of action:
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