WARP: Wireless Open Access Research Platform

About the Project

Rice University's WARP is a scalable and extensible programmable wireless platform, built from the ground up, to prototype advanced wireless networks. The open-access WARP repository allows exchange and sharing of new physical and network layer architectures, building a true community platform. Xilinx FPGAs are used to allow programmability of both physical and network layer protocols on a single platform, which is both deployable and observable at all layers.

Hardware availability: (​Getting Hardware).

Using the Platform

1) Use our Getting Started guide for assistance with installing tools and setting up hardware.

2) Which of the following best describes your intended use?

• I am interested in physical layer research
• I am interested in medium access layer research

3) Need support? See our SupportResources and Documentation

Reference Designs

Jump straight to the Wireless Reference Designs?

Papers and Presentations

See our papers and presentations about the platform.

Workshops

We conduct workshops for current and potential WARP users every few months. The presentation and teaching materials from previous workshops are available below. Watch the WARP site for announcements of upcoming workshops.

• WARP @ Rice - March 2007
• WARP @ University of Oulu - July 2007
• WARP @ Rice - November 2007
• WARP @ IIT Madras (Chennai, India) - December 2007
• WARP @ Nile University (Cairo, Egypt) - April 2008

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