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

• We have openings for BS, MS and semester projects! Check open positions.
• November 17, 2011. Paper on "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 on "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 on "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 on "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 on "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 on "TCPSpeaker: Clean and Dirty Sides of the Same Slate" accepted to Student Research Competion in ACM MobiCom 2010.
• June 21, 2010 Presentation on "Joint Transmission Rate, Power, and Carrier Sense Settings: An Initial Measurement Study" in Wimesh 2010, held in conjunction with SECON 2010.
• June 5, 2010 Demo at  Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft
• May 18, 2010 Presentation on "Design of a Configurable Wireless Network Testbed with Live Traffic" in Tridentcom 2010.
• March 9, 2010 We support 802.1x
• November 23-24 2009 Demo in Syclick Symposium
• October 15, 2009 New lab course on wireless mesh networks: Meshlab
• September 4, 2009 Demo at Sommerfest of Deutsche Telekom Labs
• August 17, 2009 Demo at Sigcomm
• August 1, 2009 Map!
• May 18, 2009 Presentation on "A Failsafe Architecture for Mesh Testbeds with Real Users" in S3 Workshop, held in conjunction with ACM MobiHoc 2009.
• March 2, 2009 Presentation on "Accurate Physical Layer Modeling for Realistic Wireless Network Simulation" in Worskshop on NS-3, held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2009.