Jae-Seung Yeom, N. Wisitpongphan, S. Panichpapiboon, O. Tonguz
{"title":"A Testbed Emulator for Cross-Layer Studies in Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Networks","authors":"Jae-Seung Yeom, N. Wisitpongphan, S. Panichpapiboon, O. Tonguz","doi":"10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444717","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile ad hoc wireless networks have been extensively studied as they make possible various interesting future applications. However, most of the existing studies focus on showing the overall impact of mobility from topology changes and signal variations, while they do not clearly show how inter-operability among protocol layers affects the network performance. To address this issue, we developed a testbed which enables us to investigate the cross-layer interaction among protocol layers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). In this paper, we report on the testbed as well as on our experiences and findings from it.","PeriodicalId":397239,"journal":{"name":"2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121592362","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":"IMS Playground in Pan-European Network of Testbeds; Benefits and Challenges","authors":"D. Witaszek, F. Gouveia, S. Wahle, T. Magedanz","doi":"10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444738","url":null,"abstract":"The main idea for launching the FOKUS IMS Playground testbed in 2004 was to provide R&D for earlier IMS developments in order to validate existing and emerging IMS standards. The IMS Playground was extended appropriately to be used on top of new access networks as well as to provide new seamless multimedia applications. The FOKUS testbed originated from own developments as well as major industry players, and is being used by academic and industrial partners for prototyping new IMS related components, protocols, and applications. The next target is to integrate FOKUS testbed in a Pan-European Network of testbeds in order to reach a broader community with the benefits of such a testbeds federation. This paper describes the FOKUS experiences at running the IMS Playground, providing a look into administrative and technical issues that need consideration on integrating testbeds. This view can be applied to run any kind of testbed. The paper presents the descriptions of the issues from service/capabilities offer to test execution, as well as the intrinsic benefits and challenges.","PeriodicalId":397239,"journal":{"name":"2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121962021","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}
Ioannis Broustis, Jakob Eriksson, S. Krishnamurthy, M. Faloutsos
{"title":"A Blueprint for a Manageable and Affordable Wireless Testbed: Design, Pitfalls and Lessons Learned","authors":"Ioannis Broustis, Jakob Eriksson, S. Krishnamurthy, M. Faloutsos","doi":"10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444684","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe the deployment efforts of our 802.11 indoor wireless testbed. We elucidate the challenges that we faced and the design decisions that we had to make, sometimes based on technical reasons, and other times due to practicalities. These design challenges involve: (a) accessibility to the software, in order to be able to modify and implement various functionalities, (b) physical extendability, in order to add hardware in the future and, (c) manageability, in order to configure and update the software easily and quickly, for all the nodes in the network. We justify the hardware and software design choices that we make in order to facilitate these requirements. For ease of maintenance and convenience, each node is diskless, and we utilize power-over-ethernet through an Ethernet connection with a central server. We ensure that the software can be easily modified; this provides for easier module implementation and parameter tuning. We explain the different ways of node deployment, decisions that we make on power settings and discuss how and why the receiver sensitivity affects deployment decisions. Finally, we present our observations based on a set of measurements to quantify the stability of the links in our testbed.","PeriodicalId":397239,"journal":{"name":"2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125810241","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}
S. Bapat, William Leal, Taewoo Kwon, P. Wei, A. Arora
{"title":"Chowkidar: A Health Monitor for Wireless Sensor Network Testbeds","authors":"S. Bapat, William Leal, Taewoo Kwon, P. Wei, A. Arora","doi":"10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444655","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless sensor network (WSN) testbeds are useful because they provide a way to test applications in an environment that makes it easy to deploy experiments, configure them statically or dynamically, and gather performance information. Sensor data collected in the field can be replayed on nodes, and new ways to process the data can be tested easily. Testbeds are rapidly growing in size, with hundreds or thousands of devices, and testbed services are also becoming richer and more complex. Due to their size and complexity, faults can (and do) occur in these testbeds, affecting the outcomes of experiments. Awareness of testbed health status is important to both testbed administrators charged with maintaining functional services, and users who prefer to use healthy devices and like to know if there are any failures during their experiments. Based on our experience with Kansei, a large WSN testbed at Ohio State, we identify use cases that motivate the design of Chowkidar, a health monitoring facility. Key among these are: monitoring as a service that operates independently of users to provide up-to-date testbed status information; monitoring of heterogeneous testbed devices and networks; distinguishing between node and interface failures; and diagnosing common-mode failures such as power supply or Ethernet hub failure. We present in this paper, a centralized and a distributed Chowkidar protocol that reliably monitor the health of large, heterogenous WSN testbeds. We present experimentally measured Chowkidar performance as well as real experiences and lessons learnt from the integration of Chowkidar with Kansei, including feedback from both testbed users and administrators who have found Chowkidar to be a useful tool for improving the accuracy and efficiency of testbed experimentation and maintenance.","PeriodicalId":397239,"journal":{"name":"2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114770001","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}
A. Al-Hezmi, O. Friedrich, S. Arbanowski, T. Magedanz
{"title":"Provisioning of an Open NGN/Triple Play Toolkit and Testbed","authors":"A. Al-Hezmi, O. Friedrich, S. Arbanowski, T. Magedanz","doi":"10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444713","url":null,"abstract":"Enabling next generation network to support multimedia streaming services across heterogeneous fixed and mobile networks challenges the developers to define a unified triple play framework solution. The IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) defined by the 3rd generation partnership projects (3GPP and 3GPP2) represents today a basis framework for a service delivery platform (SDP) for providing triple play services. Several approaches have already been introduced struggling with the need for an integrated solution based on the IMS core or the development of a separated subsystem. The Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS has launched the \"Open IMS Playground\" in July 2004 as part of the German 3G beyond national testbed. The IMS Playground has been extended recently as an open environment gathering all major IMS core components, and triple play toolkit originating from own developments as well as major industry players, which can be used by academic and industrial partners for early prototyping of new triple play services, related components, protocols, and applications. This paper introduces the relevant technologies and provides an overview of the \"open NGN/triple play toolkit and testbed @ FOKUS\".","PeriodicalId":397239,"journal":{"name":"2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115013584","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":"Path Loss Measurements at 3.5 GHz: A Trial Test WiMAX Based in Rural Environment","authors":"Pasquale Imperatore, E. Salvadori, I. Chlamtac","doi":"10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444709","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the dimensioning of the emerging wireless broadband networks operating in 3.5 GHz band by focusing on the key problem of propagation loss. The characteristics of the path loss in the 3.5 GHz band measured in a rural macro-cellular environment are presented. The existing empirical prediction models are compared with the measured data and a comparative analysis is carried out. The measurements are performed within the experimental activities developed on a WiMAX based platform located in an Italian rural area.","PeriodicalId":397239,"journal":{"name":"2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities","volume":"296 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124895421","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":"Testbed of a Novel Media Streaming Architecture for Heterogeneous Wireless Environment","authors":"L. Bokor, László Lois, C. Szabó, S. Szabó","doi":"10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444715","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the testbed of a novel network architecture which aims at providing streaming media services in a heterogeneous environment where the subscribers are roaming among different wired/wireless access networks including ADSL, WiFi, 2.5G and 3G cellular and WiMAX. The architecture provides seamless connectivity during roaming, with adapting the quality of the delivered media stream to the changes of the network characteristics and to the capabilities of a wide variety of devices. The paper presents general design considerations, focuses on a novel vertical handover mechanism, its implementation and evaluation in the testbed, as well as discusses media processing aspects. The different subsystems are currently being integrated into a single testbed which will provide an open environment for experimentation and will be suitable for technology transfer to network service providers and content providers.","PeriodicalId":397239,"journal":{"name":"2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130461174","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}
C. Palazzi, Brian Chin, Paul Ray, G. Pau, M. Gerla, M. Roccetti
{"title":"High Mobility in a Realistic Wireless Environment: a Mobile IP Handoff Model for NS-2","authors":"C. Palazzi, Brian Chin, Paul Ray, G. Pau, M. Gerla, M. Roccetti","doi":"10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444729","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless technology has the great merit to allow users' mobility. However, this may affect the functioning of all the applications and traditional protocols, worsening the already known problems with wireless connections and requiring the design and evaluation of novel solutions. Scenarios involving high mobility can be very complex; think, for instance, to a realistic case involving several nodes, representing people and cars moving under the coverage of several base stations. Since the geographical width and the number of involved nodes in such a scenario, simulations represent a fundamental tool to analyze the state of the art and newly proposed solutions. Unfortunately, modeling mobility with the most popular network simulator in the scientific community (i.e., NS-2) is not an easy task as its handoff mechanism appears faulty when coupled with a realistic model for wireless transmissions. In this paper, we discuss this problem and propose a new simulation module for mobile IP able to guarantee smooth handoffs even with realistic simulation set-ups.","PeriodicalId":397239,"journal":{"name":"2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities","volume":"425 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133209358","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":"The TeraPaths Testbed: Exploring End-to-End Network QoS","authors":"D. Katramatos, Dantong Yu, B. Gibbard, S. McKee","doi":"10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444698","url":null,"abstract":"The TeraPaths project at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) investigates the combination of DiffServ-based LAN QoS with WAN MPLS tunnels in creating end-to-end (host-to-host) virtual paths with bandwidth guarantees. These virtual paths prioritize, protect, and throttle network flows in accordance with site agreements and user requests, and prevent the disruptive effects that conventional network flows can cause in one another. This paper focuses on the TeraPaths testbed, a collection of end-site subnets connected through high-performance WANs, serving the research and software development needs of the TeraPaths project. The testbed is rapidly evolving towards a multiple end-site infrastructure, dedicated to QoS networking research, and it offers unique opportunities for experimentation with minimal or no impact on regular, production networking operations.","PeriodicalId":397239,"journal":{"name":"2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128300958","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":"Measurement of Restoration Time from Single-Link Failure in an Optical Testbed Environment","authors":"B. Alawieh, R. E. Ahmed, Hussein T. Mouftah","doi":"10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444694","url":null,"abstract":"Survivability is one of the most important requirements for an optical network. A single link failure in the network may cause severe service loss. There are several protection and recovery schemes proposed and implemented in the industry. It is very important to measure (or estimate) the restoration time in an optical network for a given protection schemes so that the performance degradation (packet loss, down-time, etc.) can be estimated. This paper presents a practical methodology for the measurement of the restoration time from a single-link failure in testbed environment at University of Ottawa Optical Networks Research Lab. (ONRL). The methodology is general, and can be extended to any practical optical network. Experimental results using ONRL testbed environment under various operating conditions are also presented.","PeriodicalId":397239,"journal":{"name":"2007 3rd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123381240","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}