The INtelligent Airport (TINA)
Lead Research Organisation:
Swansea University
Department Name: Institute of Advanced Telecommunications
Abstract
Diverse applications are expected to appear in the future with complex and often varying service requirements, traffic profiles and user expectations. These will require extremely advanced adaptive computing and communication systems to provide users with mobile, secure and automatic means of conducting business. A prime application area is in international travel which continues to grow supported by a significant investment in infrastructure, such as Heathrow Terminal 5.An intelligent, adaptive, self-organising wired/wireless infrastructure is essential in this environment. It is anticipated that the considerable growth in the complexity of this infrastructure will not just be due to the proliferation of established fixed equipment such as wireless base stations, surveillance cameras, security detection equipment, display and terminal equipment. The requirements will also be for a much wider deployment of more compact portable equipment, for example, location and control equipment on a wide range of transportation equipment. Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags supported by a transparent optical-RF network can be used to sense, locate and track an array of objects including luggage, mobile assets and commercial goods and can provide additional features such as boarding pass auto-tags and access control tags. The RFID tags will operate at low data rates, typically 64 kbit/s, but an airport environment can be expected to contain a few million of them. Mobile biometric sensors will be widely deployed in this environment providing advanced features. A range of fixed and mobile terminals will provide additional security measures such as chemical detection and analysis, while other terminals, fixed and mobile, will support passenger information and entertainment services on transit. The infrastructure will support an array of personal passenger and staff wireless media rich devices. The wired/wireless network envisaged will thus be huge and complex, supporting perhaps 10 million information sources, with an anticipated peak aggregate data rate of order 500 Gbit/s in a relatively local access environment. This is beyond the capability of any current network and research is needed to understand the principles upon which an effective system could be constructed.As this is such an ambitious and multidisciplinary project, a collaborative programme is proposed. The project has strong industrial involvement and support from Laing O'Rourke who will provide the application context, share design experience, user requirements and architectural constraints and Marconi who will contribute expertise in complex communication system design. At the outline proposal stage, we received feedback from EPSRC that they would welcome additional collaborations with those involved in airport operations. We are delighted that, in response, BAA and Boeing have agreed to become involved in the project, and within UCL links have been made to Dr Paul Brennan, who will contribute substantial knowledge of RfID, being involved in a major European project in the area. Finally we have additionally sought to involve equipment companies including Motorola and Agilent to ensure that we can receive expert advice across all areas within the project.
Publications
Qazi B
(2009)
TINA: The INtelligent Airport
Alshaer H
(2009)
An Intelligent Route Control Scheme for Multihomed Mobile Networks
Feng W
(2009)
Green ICT: Energy Efficiency in a Motorway Model
Alani O
(2009)
Teletraffic Model for Indoor Wireless Communication Network
Bathula B
(2009)
Energy Efficient Optical Burst Switched (OBS)Networks
De Grado Vivero Á
(2009)
Indoor airport radio-over-fiber network traffic model and performance analysis using load-balancing techniques [Invited]
in Journal of Optical Networking
Satyanarayana D
(2009)
A Voronoi Based Energy Efficient Architecture for Wireless Networks
Alani O
(2009)
Mix Queues Approach for Indoor Network Traffic Modelling
Qazi B
(2009)
Pico Cellular MAC Protocol for Multimedia Communication
Qazi B
(2009)
A Routing Scheme for VANETs in a City Environment
El-Gorashi T
(2010)
Storage and Mirroring in Single and Dual Section Metro WDM Rings under Different Traffic Scenarios
in Journal of Networks
Alattar J
(2010)
Optical Wireless Systems Employing Adaptive Collaborative Transmitters in an Indoor Channel
in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Alsaadi F
(2010)
Mobile Multigigabit Indoor Optical Wireless Systems Employing Multibeam Power Adaptation and Imaging Diversity Receivers
in Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
Nikkar Esfahani M
(2010)
An adaptive genetic algorithm method for mobile multi spot diffusing optical wireless systems
Alsaadi F
(2010)
Adaptive mobile multicarrier code division multiple access optical wireless systems employing a beam clustering method and diversity detection
in IET Optoelectronics
Feng W
(2010)
Lifetime evaluation in energy-efficient rectangular ad hoc wireless networks
in International Journal of Communication Systems
Alsaadi F
(2010)
Adaptive mobile optical wireless systems employing a beam clustering method, diversity detection, and relay nodes
in IEEE Transactions on Communications
El-Gorashi T
(2010)
Data replication schemes for a distributed storage scenario
Garcia Zuazola I
(2010)
UWB PIFA for simplified transceivers
in Electronics Letters
Idjmayyel H
(2010)
Position Based Routing Protocol for a City Environment
Bhattacharya S
(2010)
A 3-D Markov Chain Model for a Multi-Dimensional Indoor Environment
Garcia Zuazola I
(2010)
Sectorised WiMAX antenna for future vehicular communications systems
in IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation
Idjmayyel H
(2010)
A geographic based routing scheme for VANETs
Elmirghani J
(2010)
Theoretical characterisation and practical implementation of optical fibre PPM self synchronisation sequences
in European Transactions on Telecommunications
Bhattacharya, S.
(2010)
A 3-D markov chain model for a 3-D airport environment
Satyanarayana D
(2010)
An Energy Efficient Network Architecture for Infrastructured Wireless Networks
Alsaadi F
(2010)
High-Speed Spot Diffusing Mobile Optical Wireless System Employing Beam Angle and Power Adaptation and Imaging Receivers
in Journal of Lightwave Technology
Qazi B
(2010)
M-PRMA protocol for vehicular multimedia communication
in International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
Description | The airport environment is characterised by multi service, multi standard wireless technologies and a highly variable traffic demand in space and time due to passenger flow, behaviour and usage from entry to the boarding gate. A key objective of the project was the creation of a seamless hybrid wireless and wired infrastructure capable of providing users with a wide range of services. Within the project, three other groups at Cambridge University and UCL, focussed on developing system routing pr |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
URL | http://intelligentairport.org.uk/ |