Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP)
The WARP platform is a clean-slate design of media access (MAC) and physical (PHY) layers to prototype advanced wireless networks. Exchange of novel physical and network layers is available via the open-access WARP repository. Joseph Camp was a core member of the initial WARP team and has since designed novel rate selection protocols and experimentally evaluated WARP designs in diverse scenarios, including residential and downtown urban areas. He continues work on WARP with embedded applications in urban contexts.
Technology For All (TFA) Network
The TFA Network is a large-scale wireless mesh deployment which provides Internet access to over 4,000 users in an under-resourced community in Houston, Texas. There is an open repository for measurement studies that have been performed on the network. Joseph Camp was the Chief Network Architect and lead graduate student for the TFA Network where he architected, deployed, operated, and managed the network, designed a number of measurement studies, and modeled network performance.
The driving vision of the TAPs Project was to form a high-performance wireless backbone using multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless links. TAPs was an FPGA-based platform that preceded the WARP platform. Joseph Camp designed a CSMA MAC protocol that ran on the embedded processor on the TAPs FPGA and directly interfaced with ns-2 to abstract the other network layers (physical and routing) which were yet to be built.
The 100x100 Project was a collaborative research effort to take a clean-slate approach to fixing problems with today's Internet. Involved with numerous project retreats and teleconferences, Joseph Camp represented students working on the access piece of the Internet infrastructure via a wireless mesh network architecture that served thousands of real users yet allowed programmability and observability for research.