TY - GEN
T1 - On software tools and stack architectures for wireless network experiments
AU - Abdallah, A. S.
AU - MacKenzie, A. B.
AU - Dasilva, L. A.
AU - Thompson, M. S.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Simulation is still the most widely adopted performance evaluation technique in mobile ad hoc network research, in spite of a growing number of questions about the fidelity of this technique. Implementation-based testing and evaluation of wireless networks tends to produce believable results, but the technique sometimes suffers from poor repeatability, high implementation cost, and complex experimental logistics. The topic of this paper is software tools to enable implementation-based experimental research on wireless networks. We review some of the existing tools and propose the Flexible Internetwork Stack (FINS) framework, our open-source solution for network protocol implementation, integration, and testing. FINS aims to provide researchers with monitoring, logging, and reconfiguring utilities similar to the ones provided by simulation environments or emulation testbeds.1
AB - Simulation is still the most widely adopted performance evaluation technique in mobile ad hoc network research, in spite of a growing number of questions about the fidelity of this technique. Implementation-based testing and evaluation of wireless networks tends to produce believable results, but the technique sometimes suffers from poor repeatability, high implementation cost, and complex experimental logistics. The topic of this paper is software tools to enable implementation-based experimental research on wireless networks. We review some of the existing tools and propose the Flexible Internetwork Stack (FINS) framework, our open-source solution for network protocol implementation, integration, and testing. FINS aims to provide researchers with monitoring, logging, and reconfiguring utilities similar to the ones provided by simulation environments or emulation testbeds.1
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U2 - 10.1109/WCNC.2011.5779462
DO - 10.1109/WCNC.2011.5779462
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79959322961
SN - 9781612842547
T3 - 2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011
SP - 2131
EP - 2136
BT - 2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011
Y2 - 28 March 2011 through 31 March 2011
ER -