Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed
Syracuse University
Virginia Tech
School of Information Studies
School of Engineering
PI: Lee W McKnight Co PIs: Tamal Bose, Bruce Kingma, Craig Watters, Peter Wong
NSF Award # 0917973 & #0227879
WiGiT research and experiments serve industry needs for
intra-system, or crossover work on grid or cloud computing
on one platform and wireless Internet on another,
contributing to open standards and application programming
interfaces.
Start Date: 01 July 2009
Edgeware
Brief Project Overview:
The Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed (WiGiT) refines
transformative technologies for edgeware or personal
cyberinfrastructure to bridge wireless network middleware
and grid application layers and accelerate adoption of new
products and services.
2 Year Award
WG API
Content
Services
Software
Devices
Grid
(Specs)
Cognitive Radios
API
SDR
3G
LTE (4G)
WiMAX (4G)
Wi-Fi
Key Attributes of our
Innovation Ecosystem:
Questioning & Curiosity:
For more information see http://wglab.syr.edu
The Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed (WiGiT)
collaborative learning by university and high
school students.
Program Activities:
Risk Taking:
WiGiT webconference/meetings
of faculty, students, firms, &
governmental organizations on a
bimonthly basis.
The WiGiT testbed collaborative
learning activities extend from
New York to Virginia to Portugal.
Syracuse University & Virginia
Tech lead the partnership’s
inclusive Virtual Organization.
Top Contributions:
1. WiGiT will spur growth of new companies and
transformative wireless grid applications.
2. ‘Edgeware’ for wireless grid applications and
cognitive radios are unique as is WiGiT’s
scalable Virtual Organization.
3. WiGiT personal cyberinfrastructure is for
people-to-people, people-to-resources, and
people-to-facilities interactions.
Openness:
WiGiT requires open innovation and is open
to new partners; WiGiT specifications are
open; open source software is testbed base.
4. WiGiT Open Specifications will link open
applications programming interfaces for
cognitive radios to wireless grids edgeware.
5. Use cases for collaborative learning, gaming,
defense, emergency response, neighborhood
notification and urban farms/greenhouses.
Collaboration Across Fields:
WiGiT includes engineering, information,
management, architecture, physics &
environmental science students and faculty.
Top Challenges:
1. Implementation of the technical concept on a
distributed testbed.
2. Acceptance of WiGiT open specifications.
Partners:
WiGiT encourages trusting experimental
resources of others; such as Virginia Tech’s
CORNET Cognitive Radio Network Testbed.
Placing Partners in “New
Environments” & “Playgrounds”:
WiGiT is a new virtual environment for
playing with ideas, experiments and
applications
including
games
across
campuses and companies.
Leading/Inspiring or Surprising or
Unexpected Results
The flux of companies, universities and
government agencies collaborating in our
Virtual Organization is even greater than we
imagined.
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National Science Foundation Partnerships For Innovation
PFI Grantee’s Meeting . April 25-27, 2010 . Arlington, VA