TY - GEN
T1 - A Low-Cost Open-Source Testbed for Experimental Analysis of Ultra-Dense Wireless Networks
AU - Planchart, Victoria
AU - Martinez, Lenny
AU - Ali, Humza
AU - Toole, Myles
AU - Rahaim, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Owner/Author.
PY - 2023/10/30
Y1 - 2023/10/30
N2 - Network densification has been a key contributor to the performance improvements of the wireless ecosystem, particularly in terms of aggregate capacity. In other words, adding more base stations (BSs) or access points (APs) allows for spatial reuse of RF resources. In expectation of a continued increase in network density, we present a low-cost and open-source testbed design for experimental evaluation of network performance in ultra-dense wireless networks (UDNs). The testbed architecture emulates network conditions by generating wireless traffic on distributed Raspberry Pi microprocessors. We have run sample experiments to demonstrate performance impact of a variable number of active devices, device transmit power, and environmental channel effects. The testbed software and setup description are also openly available to the research community in our GitHub repository.
AB - Network densification has been a key contributor to the performance improvements of the wireless ecosystem, particularly in terms of aggregate capacity. In other words, adding more base stations (BSs) or access points (APs) allows for spatial reuse of RF resources. In expectation of a continued increase in network density, we present a low-cost and open-source testbed design for experimental evaluation of network performance in ultra-dense wireless networks (UDNs). The testbed architecture emulates network conditions by generating wireless traffic on distributed Raspberry Pi microprocessors. We have run sample experiments to demonstrate performance impact of a variable number of active devices, device transmit power, and environmental channel effects. The testbed software and setup description are also openly available to the research community in our GitHub repository.
KW - performance analysis
KW - testbed
KW - wireless networks
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85209142690
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85209142690#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1145/3616388.3617547
DO - 10.1145/3616388.3617547
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85209142690
T3 - MSWiM 2023 - Proceedings of the International ACM Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
SP - 93
EP - 97
BT - MSWiM 2023 - Proceedings of the International ACM Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 26th ACM International Conference on Modelling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWiM 2023
Y2 - 30 October 2023 through 3 November 2023
ER -