TestBed

The CVeT testbed will be composed of about 50 cars, vans and buses of the UCLA campus fleet. Each of these cars will be able to directly connect to the Internet through WiFi access points or, if out of access point coverage, through other cars in WiFi range. This will realize a UCLA campus car Internet backbone. The wired and wireless Internet infrastructure will stretch beyond its boundaries through cars.
Past related projects implement network connectivity on buses, with poor chances of providing low delay data transfers. Furthermore, buses move in fixed patterns and don't show how the network can benefit from random moving cars, just as regular traffic. The CVeT project, by using buses, cars and vans, improves connection chances and aims to both test delay-tolerant and real-time applications on cars.
UCLA provides an ideal "lab" environment to test innovative applications on a significant population set. Vehicular connectivity can be exploited in monitoring, safety, information and entertainment applications.
More than a scientific experiment, CVeT will serve UCLA with new applications for its community.