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    Testbeds and Research Infrastructure. Development of Networks and Communities. 7th International ICST Conference,TridentCom 2011, Shanghai, China, April 17-19, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

    The 7th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom 2011) will bring together technical experts and researchers from academia, industry and government all around the world to discuss multimedia, optical, wireless…

    The 7th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom 2011) will bring together technical experts and researchers from academia, industry and government all around the world to discuss multimedia, optical, wireless, network technologies and business opportunities, with a TridentCom 2011 conference theme "To be One-connect and communicate with Global testbeds".

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    Editor(s): Thanasis Korakis, Hongbin Li, Phuoc Tran-Gia and Hong-Shik Park
    Publisher
    Springer
    ISBN
    978-3-642-29273-6
    Conference dates
    17th–19th Apr 2011
    Location
    Shanghai, China
    Appeared in EUDL
    29th May 2012
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    • Indriya: A Low-Cost, 3D Wireless Sensor Network Testbed

      Research Article in Testbeds and Research Infrastructure. Development of Networks and Communities. 7th International ICST Conference,TridentCom 2011, Shanghai, China, April 17-19, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

      Manjunath Doddavenkatappa, Mun Chan, A. Ananda

      Abstract
      This paper presents Indriya, a large-scale, low-cost wireless sensor network testbed deployed at the National University of Singapore. Indriya uses TelosB devices and it is built on an active-USB inf…This paper presents Indriya, a large-scale, low-cost wireless sensor network testbed deployed at the National University of Singapore. Indriya uses TelosB devices and it is built on an active-USB infrastructure. The infrastructure acts as a remote programming back-channel and it also supplies electric power to sensor devices. Indriya is designed to reduce the costs of both deployment and maintenance of a large-scale testbed. Indriya has been in use by over 100 users with its maintenance incurring less than US$500 for almost 2 years of its usage.
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    • Guidelines for the Accurate Design of Empirical Studies in Wireless Networks

      Research Article in Testbeds and Research Infrastructure. Development of Networks and Communities. 7th International ICST Conference,TridentCom 2011, Shanghai, China, April 17-19, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

      Cristian Tala, Luciano Ahumada, Diego Dujovne, Shafqat-Ur Rehman, Thierry Turletti, Walid Dabbous

      Abstract
      Traditionally, wireless protocol proposals have been often tested and validated using only analytical and simulation models. However, as the wireless environment is very complex to model accurately, …Traditionally, wireless protocol proposals have been often tested and validated using only analytical and simulation models. However, as the wireless environment is very complex to model accurately, and since the cost of wireless cards has decreased in an exponential way, today more and more research papers include evaluation of new proposals using experimentation on real devices. Indeed, experimentation is a mandatory step before possible deployment of new network protocols with real users. However, wireless experimentation is much more complex to set up and run than simulation, and it is important to avoid many pitfalls that can occur during experimentation. The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we describe typical problems currently encountered in wireless-based experimentation, and we present simple guidelines to avoid them. Second, we propose an experimental methodology where the detection of anomalies, calibration of the measurement setup, and clear definition of the scenario (among others) make easier the repeatability of results. Finally, we showcase an implementation of the proposed methodology with an experimentation scenario whose objective is to analyze the stability of the wireless channel.
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    • Storage Deduplication and Management for Application Testing over a Virtual Network Testbed

      Research Article in Testbeds and Research Infrastructure. Development of Networks and Communities. 7th International ICST Conference,TridentCom 2011, Shanghai, China, April 17-19, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

      Chang-Han Jong, Pin-Jung Chiang, Taichuan Lu, Cho-Yu Chiang

      Abstract
      With the virtual machine technologies, Virtual Ad hoc Network (VAN) testbed was designed to evaluate functional correctness and communication performance of Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) applications…With the virtual machine technologies, Virtual Ad hoc Network (VAN) testbed was designed to evaluate functional correctness and communication performance of Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) applications. When VAN is used for large-scale testing that requires hundreds of virtual machines, storage redundancy becomes an issue. Although Content Addressable Storage (CAS) techniques were designed to address the storage redundancy issue, it incurred online hash computation overhead for every write access to disk blocks, which affects testing accuracy. We present File-level Block Sharing (FBS) that achieves the same functionality of CAS while removing the online computation overhead. By getting file-to-block mappings through read-only mounting, FBS only needs to handle the blocks belonging to newly-installed files offline and thus incurs little online overhead. Our prototype showed no online overhead statistically and low offline overhead. The prototype was developed and its overhead with respect to block-level storage deduplication was analyzed under both Ext2/3/4 and NTFS file systems.
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    • A Portal to Support Rigorous Experimental Methodology in Networking Research

      Research Article in Testbeds and Research Infrastructure. Development of Networks and Communities. 7th International ICST Conference,TridentCom 2011, Shanghai, China, April 17-19, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

      Guillaume Jourjon, Thierry Rakotoarivelo, Max Ott

      Abstract
      Whilst dealing with topics that are more and more influenced by physical properties of the underlying media, the networking community still lacks a culture of rigorous result verification. Indeed, as…Whilst dealing with topics that are more and more influenced by physical properties of the underlying media, the networking community still lacks a culture of rigorous result verification. Indeed, as opposed to most of the science and engineering fields there are very few benchmarks to test protocols against. Furthermore, in most publications the authors do not give the community access to the raw results or details of the performed experimental procedures. Therefore it is impossible to accurately reproduce their experiments. We propose to solve this problem by extending the state of the art experiment tool OMF with a public portal. This portal, while providing the experimenter with access to experimental resources, also provides the community with a system for comprehensive experiment description and result verification. The collection of both the measurement set and the experiment’s description is done in a transparent manner for the experimenter, who can decide to publish them via the portal once the research is mature enough.
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    • SensLAB

      Research Article in Testbeds and Research Infrastructure. Development of Networks and Communities. 7th International ICST Conference,TridentCom 2011, Shanghai, China, April 17-19, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

      Clément Burin des Rosiers, Guillaume Chelius, Eric Fleury, Antoine Fraboulet, Antoine Gallais, Nathalie Mitton, Thomas Noël

      Abstract
      This paper presents a precise description of SensLAB: Very Large Scale Open Wireless Sensor Network Testbed that has been developed and deployed in order to allow the evaluation of scalable wireless …This paper presents a precise description of SensLAB: Very Large Scale Open Wireless Sensor Network Testbed that has been developed and deployed in order to allow the evaluation of scalable wireless sensor network protocols and applications. SensLAB’s main and most important goal is to offer to support the design, development, tuning, and experimentation of real large-scale sensor network applications.
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