ASSERT: A Wireless Networking Testbed

Nourbakhsh, Ehsan; Dix, Jeff; Johnson, Paul; Burchfield, Tom; Venkatesan, S.; Mittal, Neeraj; Prakash, Ravi

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_17

Cited by 10 publications

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“…The embedded integration enhances their hardware reliability, and the installation of the WSN testbed becomes less troublesome due to fewer hardware pieces. For example, ASSERT [28] and EasiTest [30] develop their own nodes in which, respectively, a 10/100 Ethernet module and a IEEE 802.11b/g WiFi module are integrated inside their hardware.…”

Section: Broadband-bc Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental Research Testbeds for Large-Scale WSNs: A Survey from the Architectural Perspective

Kim

Hong

Yoo

et al. 2015

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have a significant potential in diverse applications. In contrast to WSNs in a small-scale setting, the real-world adoption of large-scale WSNs is quite slow particularly due to the lack of robustness of protocols at all levels. Upon the demanding need for their experimental verification and evaluation, researchers have developed numerous WSN testbeds. While each individual WSN testbed contributes to the progress with its own unique innovation, still a missing element is an analysis on the overall system architecture and methodologies that can lead to systematic advances. This paper seeks to provide a framework to reason about the evolving WSN testbeds from the architectural perspective. We define three core requirements for WSN testbeds, which are scalability, flexibility, and efficiency. Then, we establish a taxonomy of WSN testbeds that represents the architectural design space by a hierarchy of design domains and associated design approaches. Through a comprehensive literature survey of existing prominent WSN testbeds, we examine their best practices for each design approach in our taxonomy. Finally, we qualitatively evaluate WSN testbeds for their responsiveness to the aforementioned core requirements by assessing the influence by each design approach on the core requirements and suggest future directions of research.

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Section: Broadband-bc Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental Research Testbeds for Large-Scale WSNs: A Survey from the Architectural Perspective

Kim

Hong

Yoo

et al. 2015

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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“…An example of an emulator based on this design is ASSERT [4], developed by our group a few years back. By increasing (or decreasing) the attenuation it simulates the transceivers moving apart (or moving closer).…”

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“…WiNeTestEr is our followup to ASSERT [4]. ASSERT performs channel emulation in the 900 MHz ISM band using attenuation.…”

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Wireless Networking Testbed and Emulator (WiNeTestEr)

Beshay

Subramani

Mahabeleshwar

et al. 2016

Computer Communications

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a b s t r a c tRepeatability, isolation and accuracy are the most desired factors while testing wireless devices. However, they cannot be guaranteed by traditional drive tests. Channel emulators play a major role in filling these gaps in testing. In this paper we present an efficient channel emulator which is better than existing commercial products in terms of cost, remote access, support for complex network topologies and scalability. We present the hardware and software architecture of our channel emulator and describe the experiments we conducted to evaluate its performance against a commercial channel emulator.

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“…An example of an emulator based on this design was ASSERT [4], developed by our group. By increasing (or decreasing) the attenuation we simulated the transceivers moving apart (or moving closer).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wireless networking testbed and emulator (WiNeTestEr)

Subramani

Beshay

Mahabaleshwar

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

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Repeatability, isolation and accuracy are the most desired factors while testing wireless devices. However, they cannot be guaranteed by traditional drive tests. Channel emulators play a major role in filling these gaps in testing. In this paper we present an efficient channel emulator which is better than existing commercial products in terms of cost, remote access, support for complex network topologies and scalability. We present the hardware and software architecture of our channel emulator and describe the experiments we conducted to evaluate its performance against a commercial channel emulator.

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ASSERT: A Wireless Networking Testbed

Cited by 10 publications

References 19 publications

Experimental Research Testbeds for Large-Scale WSNs: A Survey from the Architectural Perspective

Experimental Research Testbeds for Large-Scale WSNs: A Survey from the Architectural Perspective

Wireless Networking Testbed and Emulator (WiNeTestEr)

Wireless networking testbed and emulator (WiNeTestEr)

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