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The Wireless Open Research KIT (WORKIT) software is a flexible platform for systems research in wireless networking which provides reusable modules for realizing a wide range of mobile networking scenarios such as integrated 802.11+3G networks, mesh networks, high capacity mobile access routers and SIP-based multimedia networks. The WORKIT project is a community resource development effort involving Lucent Bell Laboratories and three university research groups, namely Columbia University, Penn State and University of California, Santa Barbara. This collaborative research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation under the CRI program. A more detailed overview of the project architecture and goals is provided on our mission page.
The core portion of the software, referred to as the baseline, is now available and comprises software modules to support WLAN and wide-area cellular interworking. This includes support for mobility management, interlayer awareness, software algorithms for best network selection, reconfiguration, security, accounting, authentication, policy download and enforcement, and hybrid wireless networking. Software downloads for the baseline kit as well as additional extension modules are available on this web site, on the "Downloads" page.
Be aware that this software may only be used for research and educational purposes. All software modules are covered by end user license agreements.
Links to WORKIT research partners
The Lucent Bell Laboratories team has developed the baseline part of the kit described in our mission page. Additional modules are being developed by the University research partners, as follows:
- Columbia University: Under the direction of Prof. Henning Shulzrinne, this team is developing new software tools for building end-to-end high performance IP networked multimedia apps with the goals of supporting application development, monitoring, and benchmarking while ensuring operation under both infrastructure and mesh wireless networks. More information can be found here.
- Penn State University: Prof. Tom LaPorta and his team are developing a high capacity wireless access gateway/router with group mobility. This router provides a scalable capacity extension of the baseline WORKIT gateway and efficiently supports the high-speed mobility of large groups of users. More information can be found here.
- University of California at Santa Barbara: Prof. Elizabeth Belding and her team are developing multi-radio mesh relay nodes with optimized packet forwarding and routing, secure auto-configuration, and network monitoring support. More information can be found at the UCSB website.
