MiNT: a miniaturized network testbed for mobile wireless research

— Most mobile wireless networking research today relies on simulations. However, fidelity of simulation results has always been a concern, especially when the protocols being studied are affected by the propagation and interference characteristics of the radio channels. Inherent difficulty in faithfully modeling the wireless channel characteristics has encouraged several researchers to build wireless network testbeds. A fullfledged wireless testbed is spread over a large physical space because of the wide coverage area of radio signals. This makes a large-scale testbed difficult and expensive to set up, configure, and manage. This paper describes a miniaturized 802.11b-based, multi-hop wireless network testbed called MiNT. MiNT occupies a significantly small space, and dramatically reduces the efforts required in setting up a multi-hop wireless network used for wireless application/protocol testing and evaluation. MiNT is also a hybrid simulation platform that can execute ns-2 ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Pradipta De, Ashish Raniwala, Srikant Sharma, Tzi-cker Chiueh
• Keywords: Communications, INFOCOM 2005, Multi-hop Wireless Network, Wireless, Wireless Network