WING/WORLD: an open experimental toolkit for the design and deployment of IEEE 802.11-based wireless mesh networks testbeds

Authors:
Fabrizio Granelli;Roberto Riggio;Tinku Rasheed;Daniele Miorandi
Affiliations:
DISI, University of Trento, Trento, Italy;CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy;CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy;CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy
Venue:
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on simulators and experimental testbeds design and development for wireless networks
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Wireless Mesh Networks represent an interesting instance of light-infrastructure wireless networks. Due to their flexibility and resiliency to network failures, wireless mesh networks are particularly suitable for incremental and rapid deployments of wireless access networks in both metropolitan and rural areas. This paper illustrates the design and development of an open toolkit aimed at supporting the design of different solutions for wireless mesh networking by enabling real evaluation, validation, and demonstration. The resulting testbed is based on off-the-shelf hardware components and open-source software and is focused on IEEE 802.11 commodity devices. The software toolkit is based on an "open" philosophy and aims at providing the scientific community with a tool for effective and reproducible performance analysis of WMNs. The paper describes the architecture of the toolkit, and its core functionalities, as well as its potential evolutions.