ABSTRACT
The project main goal is the design and development of a software architecture enabling a flexible radio and network control of heterogeneous experimentation platforms, based on standardized wireless technologies and SDRs, through unified programming interfaces. The need for fine-grained control of communication networks is well demonstrated by the interest of the scientific community in solutions that enable software defined networking, (SDN). Open Flow, for instance, is a good example of an SDN-enabler because it allows researchers to control routers, without knowing the internals of vendor-specific implementations. The emerging wireless ecosystem is characterized by a heterogeneous mix of technologies, operators, and service providers attempting to coexist in a single environment, and featuring a high-density deployment of wireless devices. In dense wireless networks, co-channel interference is a fundamental problem, especially in the case of WiFi technologies working on the unlicensed ISM bands characterized by the availability of a few orthogonal channels and by the coexistence of multiple independent networks.
