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This is the homepage of the Unmanned Surface Vehicles as Primary Assets for the Coast Guard (Unsurpassed) project.

About Unsurpassed

The aim of this project is to design and conduct experiments on the performance of ad hoc, delay-tolerant and information-centric routing protocols as well as security mechanisms suitable for use by Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) operating autonomously over very large areas using the RAWFIE testbed.

UNSURPASSED will set the RAWFIE USV testbed in the service of the coast guard, showcasing the potential of USVs to perform surveillance and search-and-rescue tasks.

The work plan has two threads. The first involves the integration (in RAWFIE) of networking and security mechanisms that are based on distributed paradigms, i.e., ad hoc, delay-tolerant, and information-centric networking and identity-based encryption, which will turn USVs into real assets for the coast guard. The addition of these mechanisms to the testbed will significantly increase its reusability by other experimenters. The second thread consists in using these mechanisms to conduct experiments, of escalating complexity, their scope stretching from the radio channel up to networking functionality and above.

Fact sheet

Duration 1 Jan. 2018 - 31 Dec. 2018
Project leader Stavros Toumpis
Collaborators George C. Polyzos
Iordanis Koutsopoulos
Vasilios A. Siris
Merkouris Karaliopoulos
Nikos Fotiou
Yiannis Thomas
Esmerlald Aliaj
Georgia Dimaki
Petros Getsopoulos

Dissemination

Publications in conference/workshops

Deliverables

Datasets

A Set of Wireless Maritime Link Quality Measurements
This file contains a set of measurements describing the behavior of the wireless maritime link between two IEEE 802.11 network interface cards (NICs) that were placed in small, remotely operated, Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs), i.e., unmanned boats. The measurements were taken in the context of the RAWFIE and UNSURPASSED projects, at the Skaramagas testbed of the RAWFIE project, on 4/10/2018.

The measurements include, notably, throughput, latency, and jitter, and can be very useful to developers of applications that would like to estimate by hybrid simulation (i.e., using real channel measurements) their performance in maritime environments, where the bulk of transmissions take place over bodies of water, if the IEEE 802.11 protocol is used.

Download the dataset

Software

Other activities

2018 European Researchers' Night

The UNSURPASSED project was presented in the 2018 European Researchers' Night that took place in 28th September, 2018, in the downtown historic campus of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). We had the opportunity to show our work and equipment to the wide public, which included numerous high-school students. The poster of the presentation is available here.

Contact

Project Leader

Stavros Toumpis
Patission 76,
Athens 104 34, Greece
Office Location: Troias/Spetson/Kimolou building, office 406.
Tel: (+30) 210 8203650
Fax: (+30) 210 8226105
Homepage
Mobile Multimedia Laboratory
Office Locations: Room 209, Trias 2
Athens 104 34, Greece
Tel: (+30) 210 8203551
Fax: (+30) 210 8203686

This work has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement No. 645220 (Road-, Air- and Water-based Future Internet Experimentation - RAWFIE) through the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Administration support was provided by the Research Centre of the Athens University of Economics and Business.