Wibed, a platform for commodity wireless testbeds

Author

Escrich, Pau ; Baig, Roger ; Neumann, Axel ; Fonseca, Alexandre ; Freitag, Felix ; Navarro, L.

Author_Institution

Fundacio Privada per la Xarxa Lliure, Oberta i Neural (guifi.net), Gurb, Spain

fYear

2013

fDate

13-15 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Testbeds are a stage between the simulation and the production stages. To this end they must be as close as possible to production environments (i.e. real hardware, on the field deployments) while also keeping the traits of experimentation facilities (i.e. fault tolerance, ease of deployment, testing and data collection). This paper presents Wibed, a platform for facilitating the deployment and management of testbeds for experimentation on mesh networks based on commodity IEEE802.11 routers. The Wibed platform has been used to deploy the UPC-A6 testbed with 50 nodes over six campus buildings. The UPC-A6 testbed is being federated with the Community-lab testbed.

Keywords

computer network management; telecommunication network routing; wireless LAN; wireless mesh networks; UPC-A6 testbed; Wibed; commodity IEEE 802.11 router; commodity wireless testbed; community-lab testbed; data collection; fault tolerance; production environment; wireless mesh network; Communities; Computer architecture; Internet; Mesh networks; Software; Standards; Wireless communication; COTS IEEE802.11 routers; community networks; mesh networks; wireless testbed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Days (WD), 2013 IFIP

Conference_Location

Valencia

ISSN

2156-9711

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WD.2013.6686492

Filename

6686492