Facilities
The basic equipment in CWINS has been acquired through three NSF equipment grants with WPI cost sharing (for approximately $700K), one DoD DURIP equipment grant (for approximately $250K), and a number of industrial contributions (order of $430K). The core of CWINS' equipment includes RF facilities for radio propagation measurements, modeling and real-time performance evaluation studies. Following is a summary of the existing CWINS laboratory equipment available for the RF measurement and modeling program proposed in this submission:
- Real Time Channel Simulator
- PROPSIM C8 Real Time Channel Simulator with Proprietary Ray Tracing Interface
- Real Time Channel Simulator
- Elektrobit PROPSIM C8 with Proprietary Ray Tracing interface
- RF Isolated Environment
- Anecdote chamber with RF absorption material for multipath control
- Faraday RF isolated room for interference isolation
- Azimuth 801W isolated laboratory test environment
- Azimuth Mini Test Head WLAN Traffic Analyzer
- EM Modeling Software (through Antenna Lab)
- Semcad X BAN simulation software on high speed computer
- Ansoft HFSS
- Ansoft Maxwell 3D
- CST Studio
- In house and SuperNEC MOM software
- Proprietary Software
- CWINS proprietary 3D FDTD for the human body on MatLab
- CWINS proprietary super-resolution software for refined TOA estimation
- CWINS proprietary 2D and 3D measurement calibrated Ray Tracing software
- CWINS proprietary WLAN RF Placement Tool
- Phantom for human body
- Full-body Phantom Phil with real human bones and 19 separated organs
- Hollow Phantom with the same shape as Phantom Phil but no organs or bones
- RF Measurement Equipment
- Agilent E8363B Network Analyzers up to 40GHz
- Agilent E4407B Spectrum Analyzer up to 26GHz
- Agilent 8600C Digital Oscilloscope up to 20GHz
- HP-8753B Network Analyzer 6GHz
- HP-85047A S-Parameter Test Set
- HP 8672A Synthesized Signal Generator
- HP 8082A Pulse Generator
- Agilent E4419B Power Meter
- Agilent E3644A Adjustable Power Supply
- State-of-the-art Channel Measurement System
- UWB measurement systems
- IWT - Custom Made UWB Cone Antennas
- PJ Microwave - Base station UWB Triangular Antennas
- WPI designed UWB flat bow-tie antennas
- RF Labs - Lab Flex 335 UWB Cables
- Mini-Circuits - ZVE-8G UWB Power Amplifier
- IWT - Custom Made UWB Low Noise Amplifier
- Collection of high performance antenna systems from 100MHz-2.4GHz
- Sensors for Real-time Measurements
- Zarlink ZL70101 application development modules used in capsule endoscopy
- NanoLoc sensors and StarLoc development kit for TOA-based localization
- 12 IWT Axon Modules ZigBee Sensor Network Set
- Ekahau RFID WiFi localization tags
- WiFi Access Points with connectors to PROPSIM channel simulator
- Axis 9010A Bluetooth access point and Palm Bluetooth cards
- TI ZigBee 900MHz transceiver modules
- Computing equipment
- CWINS server with 48 cores and 120GB memory
- GPU-based Linux server with nVidia C2050 modules 1,024 cores
- Virtex-5 and 6 series FPGAs for real-time signal processing emulation
