A low-cost, IP-based mobile network emulator (MNE)

Author

Macker, Joseph P. ; Chao, William ; Weston, Jeffery W.

Author_Institution

Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

13-16 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

481

Abstract

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) mobile network emulator (MNE) is a low-cost, flexible wireless mobile internetwork protocol (IP) test environment that provides flexible, dynamic topology control and manipulation for testing of both IPv4 and IPv6 dynamic network scenarios, direct and indirect software support for network node motion modeling is supported. The emulation design and various software and hardware support components are described. A case example of how the mobile emulation system has been applied is also provided with a set of ancillary visualization tools, motion generators, and network analysis tools. Finally, it is discussed how such an emulation environment provides a valuable engineering tool supplementing more abstract simulation studies and costly, time-consuming field trials of mobile network systems and software.

Keywords

IP networks; mobile radio; network topology; transport protocols; IP-based mobile network emulator; Naval Research Laboratory; ancillary visualization tools; dynamic network scenarios; dynamic topology control; motion generators; network analysis tools; network node motion modeling; software support; wireless mobile internetwork protocol; Emulation; Hardware; IP networks; Manipulator dynamics; Motion control; Network topology; Software design; Software testing; Visualization; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM '03. 2003 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8140-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290150

Filename

1290150