Wireless Nodes Database

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WiND is a Web application targeted at Wireless community networks. It was created as a replacement for NodeDB for the members of Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) located in Athens, Greece.

WiND - Wireless Nodes Database
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Developed by Nikolaos Nikalexis, Konstantinos Papadimitriou, Christos Petsas, Petros Moisiadis, Faidon Liambotis, John Kolovos
OS Cross-platform
Genre Web Application
License GPL
Website code.google.com/p/wind

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[edit] License

WiND was created by a team of people and each piece of code remains under the copyright of their respective author.

WiND is Free Software, licensed under the GNU GPL.

[edit] Technical information

WiND is written in PHP and uses a MySQL backend for storing the data. Smarty is used as the template engine.

[edit] Features

  • Supports multiple users and multiple nodes per user
  • User management: different access rights for each job
  • Stores all the node information a Wireless MAN will need: location, height, area, region, backbone & AP interfaces, roof view photos, subnets & hosts in a node etc.
  • Provides an easy (but powerful) way of searching for specific nodes
  • Using NASA's SRTM data, it graphs the Line of Sight (and Fresnel zone) between two nodes and calculates Free space loss for the distance between them
  • Uses Google Maps to show the nodes and their links on the map.
  • Can be used to manage the distribution of IP Ranges and forward/reverse DNS assigned to each node (Hostmaster)
  • Fully themeable interface (using simple (X)HTML templates)
  • Support for L10n localization; Unicode/UTF-8 support
  • Integrates with BIND Nameserver for serving the DNS zones, PowerDNS integration planned
  • A WHOIS server is provided that serves the data using the WHOIS protocol

[edit] Future Plans

  • Installation page
  • Administration page (SRTM file upload)
  • Peer notification on new link creation (BB or client)
  • Monitoring links using graphs (snmp data)
  • Monitoring of IP layer (pings, latency etc)
  • Radio coverage (Google maps, Google earth)
  • PowerDNS integration
  • Statistics (new nodes, new links)
  • Action logging

[edit] Documentation

Visit the wiki page for additional information about the project.

[edit] Bugs

Trac - Bug Tracking System.

[edit] Demo

You can find a working demo of a working development version at wind.sf.net.

[edit] Communities using WiND

[[Greece]]

[[South Africa]]