Ismet Aktas, Oscar Puñal, F. Schmidt, Tobias Druner, Klaus Wehrle
{"title":"A framework for remote automation, configuration, and monitoring of real-world experiments","authors":"Ismet Aktas, Oscar Puñal, F. Schmidt, Tobias Druner, Klaus Wehrle","doi":"10.1145/2643230.2643236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643230.2643236","url":null,"abstract":"The evaluation of wireless and mobile communication systems in real-world testbeds can be cumbersome and tedious. Experiments require manual intervention to coordinate the execution of involved programs and to collect test results on each involved device. Moreover, the collection of test results from protocols is difficult due to operating system restrictions. In contrast, simulation offers the ability to easily log such information and automate whole experiments. Real-testbeds should offer the same flexibility and convenience to automate whole experiments and to collect test results as in simulation. In this paper, we propose a framework that effectively addresses this challenge. Moreover, with the integration of the cross-layer architecture CRAWLER, we demonstrate that we are able to automate experiments where cross-layer optimizations are involved and while experimenting we centrally monitor and log parameters across protocol layers on different devices.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127049015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a characterization of white spaces databases errors: an empirical study","authors":"Ahmed Saeed, Khaled A. Harras, M. Youssef","doi":"10.1145/2643230.2643234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643230.2643234","url":null,"abstract":"Spectrum regulators consider geo-location databases as the most reliable source of spectrum information for White Space Devices (WSDs). Geo-location databases protect TV band incumbents by keeping track of TV transmitters, and their protected service areas based on their location, transmission parameters, and sophisticated propagation models. However, propagation models inaccuracies can cause an overestimation of the protected area of TV transmitters leading to the inefficient usage of white spaces. In this paper, we present a large scale study, spanning an area of around 3000 km^2 over a driving path of around 190 km, showing that one of the most accurate propagation models, the Irregular Terrain Model (IMT), overestimates the signal power by up to 97% of the time. Based on this study, we provide a characterization of spectrum sensory readings that can be used to amend the prediction of propagation models. This characterization allows spectrum sensors to detect the absence of white spaces with a fairly high threshold of -84 dbm, which enables low cost and accurate spectrum sensing. Furthermore, we present the initial design of SPOC, a system that combines spectrum sensing and propagation modeling in order to better detect white spaces.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128235689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation of a protocol for cooperative packet recovery over hybrid networks","authors":"Fraida Fund, T. Korakis, S. Panwar","doi":"10.1145/2505469.2505479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2505469.2505479","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we consider the challenge of delivering high-quality multimedia content to users concentrated in a small physical location, e.g., a sports stadium in which fans may view extra video content on their mobile devices. Because each user experiences a different wireless channel condition, it is difficult to deliver this content efficiently to all users. A hybrid network architecture has been proposed that uses a peer to peer exchange of packets over an assistant network to supplement the primary infrastructure network in this scenario. We describe an implementation of this popular technique which may be used in a variety of network environments and applications. In trials on a wireless networking testbed, using WiMAX as the primary network and WiFi as an assistant network, we find that our implementation can recover up to 92% of packets lost over the primary network.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"3 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120843263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Gringoli, N. Facchi, P. Gallo, D. Garlisi, Fabrizio Giuliano, G. Bianchi
{"title":"Enabling cognitive-radio paradigm on commercial off-the-shelf 802.11 hardware","authors":"F. Gringoli, N. Facchi, P. Gallo, D. Garlisi, Fabrizio Giuliano, G. Bianchi","doi":"10.1145/2505469.2506493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2505469.2506493","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive Radio paradigm (CR) is recognized as key enabler for next generation wireless networking: accessing the limited radio spectrum in an opportunistic manner allows secondary users to boost their transmission performance without interfering with existing primary networks. Full testing and experimenting with this paradigm, however, is still a tough task, given either the i) limited capabilities above the PHY layer of cheap SDR solutions, or the ii) heavy investment required for setting up multi-node testbeds powered by FPGAs. In this demo we show how we leveraged our Wireless MAC Processor architecture to tackle the two issues at the same time, providing a highly reconfigurable cognitive solution for wireless local area networks on top of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) 802.11 devices. We demonstrate a typical CR use case where local and network-wide cognitive loops interact for configuring secondary users real time channel switching in reaction to channel state mutation. We also prove the flexibility of our Wireless MAC Processor (WMP) architecture for extensive testing of the CR paradigm.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127474497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Victor Omwando, A. Pande, Yunze Zeng, P. Mohapatra
{"title":"Evaluating perceptual video quality for mobile clients in 802.11n WLAN","authors":"Victor Omwando, A. Pande, Yunze Zeng, P. Mohapatra","doi":"10.1145/2505469.2505476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2505469.2505476","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we characterize the performance of HD video streaming in 802.11n WLANs under user mobility. We conducted experiments in QuRiNet, a large-scale outdoor wireless testbed that experiences little electromagnetic interference. We observe the variation in video quality with the variance of both speed of a mobile user and his distance from access point (AP). Using subjective scores and objective video quality assessment metrics, we build a non-linear regression model to estimate video quality based on user speed and distance. An ensemble machine learning kernel, bagging, is used in conjunction with Reduced Error Pruning Decision Trees to build a non-linear prediction model that scores 69% correlation with video quality. Overall, we find that distance has larger impact on video quality than speed. However, the physical factors such as speed and distance cannot be used in isolation to estimate video quality accurately.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130920618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jason Matusiak, Richard Graham, Keith Taylor, E. Anderson, B. Walker
{"title":"Using IF-scale delays to emulate the effects of site-specific multipath in a digital wireless channel emulator","authors":"Jason Matusiak, Richard Graham, Keith Taylor, E. Anderson, B. Walker","doi":"10.1145/2505469.2505474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2505469.2505474","url":null,"abstract":"Laboratory-based wireless testbeds are essential for performing repeatable experiments with experimental protocols and devices. Several many-to-many wireless emulators have been proposed and built, but existing systems still rely on simplified channel models, such as free-space path loss, or general stochastic fading models. We have begun using site-specific channel modeling software to drive experiments. In this paper we describe our prototype digital channel emulator with multiple discrete-time taps, and several experiments using a site-specific, 3D ray-tracing channel model, controlling and highlighting the effects of RF multipath. We describe and evaluate a technique for emulating RF-scale interference with discrete delay taps with a resolution on the timescale of IF.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128997325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stratos Keranidis, Giannis Kazdaridis, Virgilios Passas, T. Korakis, I. Koutsopoulos, L. Tassiulas
{"title":"Online energy consumption monitoring of wireless testbed infrastructure through the NITOS EMF framework","authors":"Stratos Keranidis, Giannis Kazdaridis, Virgilios Passas, T. Korakis, I. Koutsopoulos, L. Tassiulas","doi":"10.1145/2505469.2505478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2505469.2505478","url":null,"abstract":"Development of energy-efficient protocols and algorithms requires in-depth understanding of the power consumption characteristics of real world devices. To this aim, energy efficiency analysis is performed by the research community, mainly focusing on the development of power consumption models. However, recent studies [1] have highlighted the inability of existing models to accurately estimate energy consumption even in non-composite scenarios, where the operation of a single device is analyzed. The inability of such models is further highlighted under real life scenarios, where the impact induced by the simultaneous operation of several devices renders the application of traditional models completely inappropriate. As a result, energy efficiency evaluation under complex configurations and topologies, needs to be experimentally investigated through the application of online monitoring solutions. In this work, we propose the innovative NITOS Energy consumption Monitoring Framework (EMF) able to support online monitoring of energy expenditure, along with the experiment execution. The developed framework is built on a distributed network of low-cost, but highly accurate devices and is fully integrated with the large-scale wireless NITOS testbed. Framework evaluation is performed under both low-level experiments that demonstrate the platform's high-level accuracy, as well as through high-level experiments that showcase how online and distributed monitoring can facilitate energy performance assessment of realistic testbed experiments.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116605052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MASERATI: mobile adaptive streaming based on environmental and contextual information","authors":"Dookyoon Han, Jinyoung Han, Youngbin Im, Myungchul Kwak, T. Kwon, Yanghee Choi","doi":"10.1145/2505469.2505473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2505469.2505473","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless/mobile video streaming has become increasingly popular, which makes wireless link bandwidth scarce. To provide streaming services to mobile users, it is crucial to adapt to the link condition and traffic fluctuation. We investigate which factors in natural environments and user contexts affect the available link bandwidth. To this end, we conduct a measurement study which contains 38 repeated trips along the same 5~km circular road in the campus of Seoul National University in April and May 2013. We measure the download throughput of video streaming from two different networks (3G and 4G LTE) with varying location, time, humidity, and speed. Our measurement results reveal that the humidity and location are the more important factors in the 3G network, while the speed, time, and location are the more important ones in the 4G LTE network to predict the available link bandwidth. We then propose an adaptive video streaming framework, MASERATI, where the information of environments and contexts is used to predict the available bandwidth. We demonstrate that MASERATI significantly improves the QoE of mobile streaming users in terms of the playout success rate, video quality, and stability, in comparison to DASH.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117160901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power-boosting residential wired broadband","authors":"Claudio Rossi, Y. Grunenberger, K. Papagiannaki","doi":"10.1145/2505469.2506496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2505469.2506496","url":null,"abstract":"Residential users often face performance issues while using wired broadband connection with bandwidth hungry applications such as high-quality video streaming. Despite residential users have both wired (ADSL, cable, fibre) and wireless (3G, 4G) access technology at disposal, there are no applications capable of exploiting all the available capacity across different access technologies. In this demo we present an over the top (OTT) system, able to strategically On-Load a fraction of the data traffic from the wired to the cellular network, providing a power-boost for video streaming application over HTTP. We show that our solution is effective in reducing both pre-fetching and download time.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121342548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Suranga Seneviratne, A. Seneviratne, P. Mohapatra, Pierre-Ugo Tournoux
{"title":"Characterizing WiFi connection and its impact on mobile users: practical insights","authors":"Suranga Seneviratne, A. Seneviratne, P. Mohapatra, Pierre-Ugo Tournoux","doi":"10.1145/2505469.2505480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2505469.2505480","url":null,"abstract":"Smartphones and WiFi networks are becoming pervasive. As a result, new applications and services are being offered to smartphone users through WiFi networks. Some of the more novel applications provide data services to pedestrians as they move through WiFi coverage areas in public loca- tions such as railway stations. One significant factor that will influence the data transfers for users when they are on the move, is the connection set-up time. In this paper we characterize the WiFi connection set-up process. Using data from voluntary Android smartphone users, we show that WiFi connection setup have significant delays, sometimes as high as 10s. Then through a detailed analysis of the con- nection set-up process we show that, contrary to previous findings, this is due to losses of DHCP messages at the WiFi access point. We also show that some of the methods that have been adopted by device manufactures are suboptimal and this can be addressed at the WiFi access point. Finally using this insight we extend a known mathematical model, which will help in the dimensioning of WiFi networks for pedestrian smartphone users.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130552415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}