On software tools and stack architectures for wireless network experiments

A. S. Abdallah; A. B. MacKenzie; L. A. Dasilva; M. S. Thompson

doi:10.1109/WCNC.2011.5779462

On software tools and stack architectures for wireless network experiments

A. S. Abdallah
, A. B. MacKenzie
, L. A. Dasilva
, M. S. Thompson

School of Engineering (Behrend)

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Abstract

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

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	2131-2136
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781612842547
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2011.5779462
State	Published - 2011

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Name	2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011

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Computer Networks and Communications
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Abdallah, A. S., MacKenzie, A. B., Dasilva, L. A., & Thompson, M. S. (2011). On software tools and stack architectures for wireless network experiments. In 2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011 (pp. 2131-2136). Article 5779462 (2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2011.5779462

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Abdallah, AS, MacKenzie, AB, Dasilva, LA & Thompson, MS 2011, On software tools and stack architectures for wireless network experiments. in 2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011., 5779462, 2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 2131-2136. https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2011.5779462

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