Creating wireless multi-hop topologies on space-constrained indoor testbeds through noise injection Export

@inproceedings{kaul:topologies, abstract = {To evaluate routing protocols on a controlled indoor wireless testbed, the radio range must be compressed so that larger multi-hop topologies can be mapped into a laboratory-size area. We propose noise injection as a more flexible option than hardware attenuation and consider methods for mapping real world wireless network topologies onto the testbed. Our experimental results show that additive white Gaussian noise effectively reduces the radio range, without the need for hardware attenuation and careful shielding of wireless cards. We performed experiments for a free space propagation environment. By selecting node positions through an automated procedure, we were able to create a 5-node/4-hop string topology and a random partially connected 6-node topology in a 8m by 8m area with off-the-shelf IEEE 802.11 hardware.}, author = {Kaul, Sanjit K. and Gruteser, Marco and Seskar, Ivan}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TRIDENTCOM 2006)}, citeulike-article-id = {2820676}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1132983.1132986}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1649191}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1132983.1132986}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1132983.1132986}, keywords = {crawdad, measurement, rutgers\_noise, wireless}, month = {March}, posted-at = {2008-05-21 17:27:04}, priority = {2}, title = {Creating wireless multi-hop topologies on space-constrained indoor testbeds through noise injection}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1132983.1132986}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - kaul:topologies L3 - citeulike-article-id:2820676 N2 - To evaluate routing protocols on a controlled indoor wireless testbed, the radio range must be compressed so that larger multi-hop topologies can be mapped into a laboratory-size area. We propose noise injection as a more flexible option than hardware attenuation and consider methods for mapping real world wireless network topologies onto the testbed. Our experimental results show that additive white Gaussian noise effectively reduces the radio range, without the need for hardware attenuation and careful shielding of wireless cards. We performed experiments for a free space propagation environment. By selecting node positions through an automated procedure, we were able to create a 5-node/4-hop string topology and a random partially connected 6-node topology in a 8m by 8m area with off-the-shelf IEEE 802.11 hardware. TI - Creating wireless multi-hop topologies on space-constrained indoor testbeds through noise injection T2 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TRIDENTCOM 2006) KW - crawdad KW - measurement KW - rutgers_noise KW - wireless AU - Kaul, Sanjit AU - Gruteser, Marco AU - Seskar, Ivan PY - 2006/March// UR - http://dx.doi.org/http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1132983.1132986 ER -