WiPal and WScout, two hands-on tools for wireless packet traces manipulation and visualization

Authors:
Thomas Claveirole;Marcelo Dias de Amorim
Affiliations:
UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France;UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France
Venue:
Proceedings of the third ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In this demonstration paper, we present an overview of WiPal and WScout, two tools to handle IEEE 802.11 packet traces. WiPal embeds several programs to manipulate IEEE 802.11 packet traces, while WScout is a visualizing program designed for large packet traces. WiPal includes an IEEE 802.11 trace merger and tool for obtaining a number of statistics on the trace under analysis. WScout's main characteristic is its ability to open traces that are much larger than the ones handled by existing visualization tools.