Berlin Open Wireless Lab

Coverage of the BOWL network.

© BOWL-Team

BOWL is a project of the Intelligent Networks (INET) group at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories. The main goal of the BOWL project is to provide an open research platform for the wireless networking community. As our outdoor testbed also serves to provide access to the TU Berlin community, BOWL creates a unique opportunity for understanding the real-world performance of proposed solutions. Most importantly, wireless networking research needs no more to be confined to simulation or emulation in fully controlled lab environments. The main components of the BOWL project are:

• A modular and configurable software architecture
• A management subsystem
• A measurement/monitoring subsystem

The BOWL project maintains a reconfigurable wireless outdoor testbed with 50 nodes. The network can be configured to serve as both an infrastructure and a mesh network. This testbed is integrated to TU-Berlin's IT department (tubIT) and its infrastructure for student access. For smaller experiments or for experiments that are not ready to be tested in an environment with real users, there also exists an indoor testbed.*

News

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• May 1, 2012. Paper titled "Bowlmap: Network Monitoring and Debugging through Measurement Visualization" is accepted as an invited paper to HotMesh 2012 (The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Hot Topics in Mesh Networking in conjunction with WoWMoM). Congratulations Benjamin and Thomas!
• Apr. 24, 2012. Paper titled "Practical Power and Rate Control for WiFi' is accepted to ICCCN (21st International Conference on Computer Communication Networks) 2012. Congratulations Thomas!
• Apr 3, 2012. Paper titled "Accuracy preserving Measurement Collection for Realistic Wireless Simulations" is accepted to ISCC (Seventeenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication) 2012. Congratulations Mustafa!
• March 23, 2012. Poster titled "NS-3 Implementation of a Measurement-based Link Model: the BOWL Indoor Model" in the workshop on NS-3 (WNS3 2012) in conjunction with SimuTools 2012. Congratulations Mustafa!
• November 17, 2011. Paper titled "What Details are Needed for Wireless Simulations? - A Study of a Site-Specific Indoor Wireless Model" is accepted to INFOCOM 2012. Congratulations Mustafa!
• July 13. 2011. Paper titled "Experiences with BOWL: Managing an Outdoor Network (Or How to Keep Both Internet Users and Researchers Happy" is accepted to Usenix LISA (Large Installation System Administration) 2011. Congratulations to the BOWL team!
• Jan 13, 2010. Paper titled "A Site-specific Indoor Link Model for Realistic Wireless Network Simulations" is accepted to SIMUTools 2011 (4th International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques). Congratulations Mustafa!
• Jan 12, 2010. Paper titled "Experimental Analysis of Backpressure Scheduling in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks" is accepted to ICC 2011 Adhoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium ('ICC'11 AHSM'). Congratulations Jaeyong!
• September 23, 2010. Poster titled "TCPSpeaker: Clean and Dirty Sides of the Same Slate" got 3rd place in Student Research Competion in ACM MobiCom 2010.Congratulations to Dan Levin and Harald Schioeberg!
  
• August 16, 2010 Poster titled "TCPSpeaker: Clean and Dirty Sides of the Same Slate" accepted to Student Research Competion in ACM MobiCom 2010.
• June 21, 2010 Presentation titled "Joint Transmission Rate, Power, and Carrier Sense Settings: An Initial Measurement Study" in Wimesh 2010, held in conjunction with SECON 2010.