Brief announcement: a platform for experimenting with mobile algorithms in a laboratory

  • Authors:
  • Matthieu Roy;Marc-Olivier Killijian

  • Affiliations:
  • LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France;LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 28th ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this work, we present a platform for testing algorithms on mobile systems. We advocate that the interest of the platform lies in many aspects: it shows that simulators are not accurate, especially with regards to wireless communication and delays assumptions. Such a platform can be used to refine simulators assumptions. Moreover, to the best of our knowledge, our platform is the first attempt to implement mobility patterns, that permit to test multiple distributed algorithms in the same movement configuration, allowing for reproducible experiments. Last, but not least, we want to open our platform to test other distributed and mobile algorithms, with the hope that it will open new problems and pose new challenges.