A 802.11 Wireless Communications System for AUGER Project Enhancements

GONZALO DE LA VEGA; ALBERTO ETCHEGOYEN; MANUEL PLATINO; BEATRIZ GARCIA

PUBLICACION INTERNA DE LA COLABORACION INTERNACIONAL AUGER

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Año: 2008

A distributed sensor instrument, as the Pierre Auger Observatory, heavily relies on a communication system to coordinate its components and carry the collected data for processing. Unfortunately, the existing communication system can not be scaled up to include Auger enhancements. A new, parallel wireless network, using standard 802.11 technology is proposed. In order to have it properly working, several factors were taken into account so as to minimize response-time and bit-rate problems, as well as assuring reliability.