MobiHoc '01 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
On the accuracy of MANET simulators
Proceedings of the second ACM international workshop on Principles of mobile computing
Experimental evaluation of wireless simulation assumptions
MSWiM '04 Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Addressing Repeatability in Wireless Experiments using ORBIT Testbed
TRIDENTCOM '05 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities
Illinois wireless wind tunnel: a testbed for experimental evaluation of wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Experimental approaches to wireless network design and analysis
Kansei: a testbed for sensing at scale
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Trio: enabling sustainable and scalable outdoor wireless sensor network deployments
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Partially overlapped channels not considered harmful
SIGMETRICS '06/Performance '06 Proceedings of the joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
A survey on real-world implementations of mobile ad-hoc networks
Ad Hoc Networks
Estimation of link interference in static multi-hop wireless networks
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
Understanding and mitigating the impact of RF interference on 802.11 networks
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Using physical layer emulation to understand and improve wireless networks
Using physical layer emulation to understand and improve wireless networks
ASSERT: Advanced wireleSS Environment Research Testbed
Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
A taxonomy and evaluation for developing 802.11-based wireless mesh network testbeds
International Journal of Communication Systems
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Most researchers conduct wireless networking experiments in their laboratory or similar indoor environments. Such environments are veritable RF jungles, especially when we consider the ISM bands. In this paper we examine and test several common explicit and implicit assumptions that researchers tend to make about the wireless environment. Although these assumptions are acknowledged by most researchers, the extent of their impact is often underestimated. We find that because the environment is always in flux, it is almost impossible to reproduce the results of an experiment. Hence, there is a high risk of misinterpreting the data obtained from such experiments. Through this paper we try to caution experimenters against such risky assumptions when they venture into the RF jungle. After a successful proof-of-concept experiment, we advocate the use of wireless networking testbeds that provide experimenters better control over the RF environment by using coaxial cables, programmable attenuators and power dividers/combiners.