THE COLLABORATIVE WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE (CWI) WORKSHOP

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DATES: February 28-March 1, 2006 (1.5 days)

LOCATION:
UCLA Boelter Hall; Rice Conference Room
Los Angeles, California

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• Rice Conference room is on the 6th Floor of Boelter Hall, the room address is:
  6764 Edward K. Rice Conference Room

ACCOMMODATIONS: A block of room reservations is being held at the Tiverton House, UCLA.

TECHNICAL CONTACT: Chris Heermann
ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT: Myrna Ortiz

OVERVIEW

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The purpose of the Collaborative Wireless Infrastructure workshop is to examine the need for establishing an abstraction layer between the wireless infrastructure that is being deployed and the applications that support environmental science. The abstraction layer will facilitate sharing of the wireless infrastructure between distributed applications within the communities of interest (CLEANER, EarthScope, LTER, MBARI, NEON and NPDN). The advantage of having this capability is to minimize redundant infrastructure and reduce costs. Scientists and engineers in these areas will benefit from the following services:

• Coverage maps of wireless infrastructure
• Availability and Ability of infrastructure
• Security (Trust models: Shibboleth, FWNA, and Eduroam)
• Knowledge base (Catalogue of technology expertise)

AGENDA

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The workshop will have a strong technical focus by including experts, users and owners of wireless infrastructures. The format will be open (round table discussion) with one and a half days of brainstorming within a select group of experts with a maximum of twenty-five attendees. The participant profile will include scientists that have current or pending needs for wireless technologies in their research, technical experts from the NSF’s communities of interest, technical experts from the IT community in R&E, and wireless technology researchers and specialists.

Workshop participants will debate the various aspects of CWI by addressing the following issues and to new issues that emerge from the group:

• The necessity of a collaborative infrastructure
• Wireless infrastructures used within CLEANER, EarthScope, LTER, MBARI, NEON, and NPDN
• Issues regarding network security
• Challenges of a collaborative infrastructure
• Identification of next steps