DSRC Meeting minute

Date: October the 25th, 2002

Action Items for next meeting

• Marco: will create a new section on the web-page called "reading material";
• Koushik and Paul: will provide the paper list to add to the web-site to Marco;
• Koushik: will list the things that has to be done to use NS for our simulation (i.e. list the needed modifications and their priorities)
• Paul: will write one paragraph summary of the BOSH paper;
• Paul: will attend the monthly DSRC meeting;
• Paul: will summarize and present to us the DSRC meeting discussion;
• Paul: will create the test guidelines;
• Paul: will get a SAS license
• Paul: will provide a traffic trace with time step of 100 ms;
• Paul: will study the differences between the first test and future one (what data is missing in the first test? What can we get out of it? Which technique can be used or reused?)
• Tony: will go through the Justin McNeal presentation on DSRC MAC;
• Tony: will work on the beacon problem (how to allow broadcast and disable beacon at the same time);
• Tony: will start to read the 802.11 standard;
• Tony: will start to create a documentation of the Atheros drivers (function dependencies, architecture, etc);
• Thomas: will fix the CTK bugs;

            Next week the testing kit (a couple of laptops equipped with radio, GPS, antennas and the CTK software) are going to be assembled. Because of it we are going to be able to do start to gather data and analyze it soon. It will be a first data set, with rough data. We are planning to be able more information in the future. This first set should be enough though to so a first set of analysis. We should be able to create a first model of power vs. distance for example.
            Eight testing kits are going to be assembled. Seven of them are going to be distributed among seven different car companies and one of them will be given to Berkeley.
            Now we do not want to end up with eight test dataset. We should try to have different group to do different test (e.g. the group A should test the freeway environment; the group B should test the tunnel environment and so on).
            This is where the Paul's test guidelines come into the pictures: they are going to be used by the car companies to produce a unique dataset.
            We should focus our attention of the data set we are going to be able to gather, to understand the differences between this set and the "complete set of information" we are going to be gathering in future.

First test, the questions that has to be answered:

• What is the size of the data we are going to get?
• How we are going to clean the data?
• How we are going to analyze the data?
• How to generate the models?

Progress report

• Marco: the web site is up and running;
• Koushik: worked on NS. A new routine has been added that create a list of the neighbors of a car given the transmission power.
• Tony: worked on the drivers;
• Thomas: debugged CTK;