In this page we present the work plan that will be followed over the eighteen weeks during which this thesis will be carried out. The Gantt Diagram shown at the bottom presents the task scheduling defined as follows.
- [✔︎] 23/02 – 08/03 (2 Weeks) – Gain further familiarization with the FM Radio Data System (RDS) and the PACE existing implementation. The objective of this initial phase is to specify the control mechanism with a wider knowledge of the limitations and requirements of the system.
- [✔︎] 09/03 – 15/03 (1 Week) – Formal Definition of the control mechanism, including the specification of the control protocol and the selection of the appropriate fault tolerance mechanisms.
- [✔︎] 16/03 – 12/04 (4 Weeks) – Implementation of the previously defined control mechanism. This will involve writing and changing multiple programs which will then need to be integrated into one consistent system. By the end of this phase it is expected to have already a functional prototype of a WVSN with a FM-RDS based control channel.
- [✔︎] 13/04 – 26/04 (2 Weeks) – Evaluation of the current prototype. First we will have to set up the tests environment and only after this first step the experiments will be conducted. The objective of this phase is to identify problems of the former prototype and understand what optimizations can be carried out.
- [✔︎] 27/04 – 24/05 (4 Weeks) – Second iteration over the prototype construction (2 weeks) and respective tests (2 weeks). The objective is to proceed to the implementation of all the optimizations identified in the previous phase and perform the final tests to the prototype. At the end of this phase we expect to have all the data required to properly evaluate the implemented solution and compare it both with the FM-WiFIX simulation results shown in [1] and the other solutions presented in the State Of The Art.
- [✔︎] 25/05 – 31/05 (1 Week) – As a final validation of this work, we expect to make a demonstration of a real-time video streaming using the prototype built. At the end of this phase we hope to successful simulate a real operation of this system, similarly to the FM-WiFIX reference scenario, where multiple nodes are retrieving video streams and sending them to the gateway.
- [✔︎] 01/06 – 28/06 (4 Weeks) – Writing the final document of this thesis, where all the work done will be reported and analyzed.
