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MobiLab: A Testbed for Evaluating Mobility Management Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.21-12-2017.153504,
        author={Jianjun Wen and Zeeshan Ansar and Waltenegus Dargie},
        title={MobiLab: A Testbed for Evaluating Mobility Management Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks},
        journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Future Internet},
        volume={4},
        number={12},
        publisher={EAI},
        journal_a={UE},
        year={2017},
        month={12},
        keywords={Testbed, handover, mobility management, wireless sensor networks, mobile},
        doi={10.4108/eai.21-12-2017.153504}
    }
    
  • Jianjun Wen
    Zeeshan Ansar
    Waltenegus Dargie
    Year: 2017
    MobiLab: A Testbed for Evaluating Mobility Management Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
    UE
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.21-12-2017.153504
Jianjun Wen1,2, Zeeshan Ansar1,2, Waltenegus Dargie1,2,*
  • 1: Chair for Computer Networks, Faculty of Computer Science, Technical University of Dresden, 01062 Dresden,
  • 2: Germany
*Contact email: waltenegus.dargie@tu-dresden.de

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks that support the mobility of nodes are finding applications in different areas such as healthcare, elderly care, and rehabilitation from total knee and hip replacement. However, these application areas also require reliable and high throughput networks. Considering the high fluctuation of link quality during mobility, protocols supporting mobile wireless sensor nodes should be rigorously tested to ensure that they produce predictable outcomes. In this paper we present a wireless sensor network testbed for carrying out repeated and reproducible experiments, independent of the application or protocol types which should be tested. The testbed consists of, among others, a server side control station and a client side traffic flow controller which coordinate inter- and intra-experiment activities. We fully implemented the testbed for the TinyOS and TelosB platforms. We employed Diddyborg robots for emulating different types of movement in indoor and outdoor environments. The paper includes also an extensive evaluation of the testbed and the performance of two mobility-aware MAC protocols.

Keywords
Testbed, handover, mobility management, wireless sensor networks, mobile
Received
2016-11-17
Accepted
2017-07-06
Published
2017-12-21
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.21-12-2017.153504

Copyright © 2016 Jianjun Wen et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.

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