Go - Wireless

NYCwireless meetingWednesday 8/28/2002

Who’s who Contributors (In alphabetical order): Huang, XiuYi (Assistant for system administration)Nweisser, Ayman (Contributor for graphical map coding)Sy, Bon K. (Project leader and code contributor)Yang Wei-Tsu (Documentation and data entry)Xu, Ling (Major contributor for coding)

Affiliation: Queens College and University Graduate CenterCity University of New York

Go-Wireless URL Resources

• Wireless project resource center http://bonnet2.geol.qc.edu/wireless/

• Wireless node information management tool http://bonnet19.cs.qc.edu:7778/pls/qcwireless/

• Toll-free number for searching wireless node– 1-877-33vocal (1-877-338-6225)– PIN: 7221– User ID: 9973494

What is Go-Wireless project?

• Started by few wireless fans in Queens College June of 2002

• Wireless node information management tool

• Accessible over the web and phone• Audience

– Wireless users– Wireless node owners– Wireless community group administrators

Philosophy behind Go-Wireless

• Environment for one to create/join a community wireless network/group

• “Access control” feature for a group owner to accept/reject membership application

• Wireless node information is owned and controlled by individual node owner

• Management tool to help node owners to maintain up-to-date wireless node information

• Wireless users– Node location

• Search over the web or phone• Search by zip code• Search by state and city name (or street name)• Search by longitude and latitude radius

– Access information• Text, graphical map, XML, or voice output• Encryption key information• Compatible devices

– Publish information about the access devices• MAC address for node owner to authorize access

• Wireless node owner– Associate/expose wireless node(s) to one or more

community groups• With or without contact information

– Publish node location• With or without contact information

– Publish authentication and access information• Encryption key information• Compatible devices

– Manage MAC address based authentication• Download and import authorized MAC addresses

authentication

• Wireless community group owner/coordinator– Management tool for membership application and

maintaining membership information– Ability to set up private group, but for public– Utility to monitor membership (application) status– Utility for individuals to apply for membership– Automatic and instant email utility for coordinator to

contact an individual about a decision on membership application.

Contact information• Main contact: Bon K. Sy

– Email: bon@bunny.cs.qc.edu– Voice: 718-997-3566 x-3477– Fax: 718-997-3513

• What do we want from you?- contact us if you are interested in collaboration- offer us your valuable feedbacks and comments- help others to get the most out of our project as an end-user- join us for technology development, policy setting, and many more tasks ahead …

- Main Page- Main Page

- User Registration

- End of Registration

- Main Page- Main Page

- User Login

- Registered Users Only

- User Address

- Add Address

- Address added

- Registered Users Only

- Contacts

- Registered Users Only

- AP Search

- AP Search by Zip Code

- AP Search by Zip Code – text output

- Node Information

- Node Auditing

- AP Search by Zip Code

-AP Search by Zip Code – Graphical output

- AP Search

- AP Search by Street

- AP Search

- AP Search by Lat. & Long.

- Registered Users Only

- Access Point Utilities

- Add a new access point

- Access Point Utilities

- Editing an Access Point

- Access Point Utilities

- Linking an AP to Groups

- Access Point Utilities

- Linking an AP with an address

- Access Point Utilities

- Channels

- Access Point Utilities

- Node Ownership Transfer

- Access Point Utilities

- Supported Adapters

- Registered Users Only

- Group List

- Subscribe to or Create a group

- Registered Users Only

- My Groups

- Registered Users Only

- Node Auditing

To node

Auditing

To AP search

- Registered Users Only

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- Main Page- Main Page

- Public Area Page

- Public Area – Lag. & Long Search

- Public Area Page

- AP Search

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