1st International Conference on Integrated Internet Ad hoc and Sensor Networks

Research Article

Addressing repeatability in wireless experiments using ORBIT testbed

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.9,
        author={Sachin  Ganu and Haris  Kremo and Richard  Howard and Ivan  Seskar},
        title={Addressing repeatability in wireless experiments using ORBIT testbed},
        proceedings={1st International Conference on Integrated Internet Ad hoc and Sensor Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
        year={2005},
        month={3},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.9}
    }
    
  • Sachin Ganu
    Haris Kremo
    Richard Howard
    Ivan Seskar
    Year: 2005
    Addressing repeatability in wireless experiments using ORBIT testbed
    TRIDENTCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.9
Sachin Ganu1,*, Haris Kremo1,*, Richard Howard1,*, Ivan Seskar1,*
  • 1: WINLAB, Rutgers University, 73 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854
*Contact email: sachin@winlab.rutgers.edu, harisk@winlab.rutgers.edu, reh@winlab.rutgers.edu, seskar@winlab.rutgers.edu

Abstract

With the rapid growth in research activity on future wireless networking applications and protocols, experimental study and validation is becoming an increasingly important tool to obtain realistic results that may not be possible under the constrained environment of network simulators. However, experimental results must be reproducible and repeatable for them to be used to compare proposed systems and to build prototypes. In this paper, we address the issue of repeatability in wireless experiments in the Open Access Research Testbed for Next-Generation Wireless Networks (ORBIT) testbed and propose a mechanism to promote reproducible experiments using periodic calibration of the equipment. Several experimental results that capture repeatability in time and space using our initial testbed setup are also provided.