Experiences in deploying a wireless mesh network testbed for traffic control

Authors:
Kun-chan Lan;Zhe Wang;Mahbub Hassan;Tim Moors;Rodney Berriman;Lavy Libman;Maximilian Ott;Bjorn Landfeldt;Zainab Zaidi
Affiliations:
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan;University of New South Wales;University of New South Wales;University of New South Wales;National ICT Australia;National ICT Australia;National ICT Australia;National ICT Australia;National ICT Australia
Venue:
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Wireless mesh networks (WMN) have attracted considerable interest in recent years as a convenient, flexible and low-cost alternative to wired communication infrastructures in many contexts. However, the great majority of research on metropolitan-scale WMN has been centered around maximization of available bandwidth, suitable for non-real-time applications such as Internet access for the general public. On the other hand, the suitability of WMN for mission-critical infrastructure applications remains by and large unknown, as protocols typically employed in WMN are, for the most part, not designed for real-time communications. In this paper, we describe the Smart Transport and Roads Communications (STaRComm) project at National ICT Australia (NICTA), which sets a goal of designing a wireless mesh network architecture to solve the communication needs of the traffic control system in Sydney, Australia. This system, known as SCATS (Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System)and used in over 100 cities around the world, connects a hierarchy of several thousand devices -- from individual traffic light controllers to regional computers and the central Traffic Management Centre (TMC)-- and places stringent requirements on the reliability and latency of the data exchanges. We discuss our experience in the deployment of an initial testbed consisting of 7 mesh nodes placed at intersections with traffic lights, and share the results and insights learned from our measurements and initial trials in the process.