Realistic wireless emulation for performance evaluation of tactical MANET protocols

  • Authors:

  • Michael A. Kaplan;Ta Chen;Mariusz A. Fecko;Provin Gurung;Ibrahim Hokelek;Sunil Samtani;Larry Wong;Mitesh Patel;Aristides Staikos;Ben Greear

  • Affiliations:

  • Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Piscataway, NJ;Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Piscataway, NJ;Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Piscataway, NJ;Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Piscataway, NJ;Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Piscataway, NJ;Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Piscataway, NJ;Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Piscataway, NJ;U.S. Army CERDEC, Fort Monmouth, NJ;U.S. Army CERDEC;Candela Technologies, Inc., Ferndale, WA

  • Venue:
  • MILCOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Military communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Traditional approaches for testing MANET protocols and applications prior to field experimentation often involve simulation tools or small-sized physical testbeds. However, simulation tools typically do not run in realtime and rely on simplified models rather than a real system, while physical testbeds are prohibitively expensive to build and operate. A more practical method is to use emulation tools as they provide highfidelity network modeling in a cost-effective manner without sacrificing realism. In this paper, we present the use of Wireless IP Scalable EmulatoR (WISER) and its capabilities for testing and evaluating two network routing agents, namely Congestion Control Agent (CCA) and Soft Handoff Agent (SHA), developed for tactical MANETs under the CERDEC PILSNER program. These two agents are integrated within the WISER framework, providing them a scalable and realistic wireless MANET testbed which otherwise was not readily available. Experiments demonstrating interoperability of these technologies are included.