ParkNet: WiMax
Marco Gruteser, WINLAB Rutgers Univ
Ivan Seskar (WINLAB)
Max Ott (NICTA)
Thanasis Korakis (NYU Poly)
November 3, 2010
http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/
http://www.geni.net
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November 3, 2010
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Motivation: Cruising for Parking
• US: $78 billion cost of
congestion (time &
gasoline)
• Cruising for Parking:
• Brooklyn: 45%
• Soho: 28%
• LA – Westwood village
(small business district):
• 730 tons CO2
• 47,000 gal gasoline
• 950,000 VMT
• Source: D. Shoup
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What if … Real-time Parking Availability Statistics?
• Drivers: Guide drivers
to regions with
available parking
• Cities:
– Setting prices
– maximum stays
– where to install parking
meters
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• More informed travel
decisions: public
transit vs carpool vs
car
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Idea: Drive-By Sensing of Parking Spots
Parking Availability
Estimation
Rangefinder
+ GPS
Wireless
Service
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Valid Parking
Spot Map
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Challenges
• Mining sensing data for parking spots
• Identifying legal spots
• Accurate positioning
Requires extensive real-world data collection
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Today’s Demonstration
6 ParkNet Cars
Wimax
@ Brooklyn
Poly
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Demo Configuration - Resources
Experimenter’s View
User View
WiMax Client
with Sensors
WiMAX
Base Station
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GENI Backbone
Network
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Cloud
Servers
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Demo Configuration - Resources
Experiment
Description
RC
AM
Apps
RC
OML
Server
OML
CN
EN
Rutgers Aggregate
GENI
Backbone
Brooklyn Poly Aggregate
Experimental Network (EN)
Control Network (CN)
PubSub
Server
AM
RC
OML
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Base Station
Control App
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RC
OML
Sensor
Apps
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ParkNet with GENI
• GENI has proven valuable by
– Allowing cost effective experimentation with delay-tolerant data collection
protocols on Wimax/4G cellular networks
– Battle-hardened hardware and relevant domain knowledge
– Providing tools for executing and orchestrating experiments across a set of
mobile nodes
– Tools to deploy and keep alive long running experiments (almost hands-off)
– Monitoring & instrumentation plane to obtain and manage large amounts of
measurements (data)
• Results to date
• Science: MobiSys best paper award
• Outreach: MIT Tech Review, CBC Online, etc
• We look forward to experimenting at more WiMAX sites and with more
vehicles as GENI grows
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