Summary

Using the funding in this project CWINS purchased a PROPSim C8 hardware platform for development of a real time RF channel simulation environment. PROPSim is currently the world's leading hardware platform used for real time simulation of wireless channel behavior for cellular networks and WLANs. In addition to simulation for traditional communication systems, the platform can simulate geolocation and smart antenna environments vital to modern military and commercial communication projects. The simulator allows us to test modern telecommunication and geolocation systems quickly and thoroughly under controlled, realistic, and repeatable channel conditions in the laboratory, thereby reducing the time and cost of field tests through improved and better focused test planning.

Samples of PROPSim Testbed

Principal Investigators

• Kaveh Pahlavan (CWINS)
• Allan Levesque (CWINS)
• Jacques Beneat (CWINS)

Research Staff (CWINS)

• Mohammad Heidari
• Leon T. Metreaud

Sponsor

DoD DURIP

Duration

April 2000 - May 2001

Publications

• L.T. Metreaud and K. Pahlavan, "RF Isolated Real-Time Multipath Testbed for Performance Analysis of WLANs," presented at the 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, 2006.
• Mohammad Heidari, MS, 2005, A Test-bed for Real-time Performance Evaluation of Indoor Geolocation Systems in Laboratory Environment.
• M. Heidari and K. Pahlavan, "Performance Evaluation of Indoor Geolocation Systems Using PROPSim Hardware and Ray Tracing Software", IWWAN, Oulu, Finland, June, 2004.
• M. Heidari and K. Pahlavan, "A Testbed for Real-Time Performance Evaluation of Indoor Geolocation Systems", Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, WAMI, April, 2004.