A low-cost, IP-based mobile network emulator (MNE)

Authors:
Joseph P. Macker;William Chao;Jeffery W. Weston
Affiliations:
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC;Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC;Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Venue:
MILCOM'03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE conference on Military communications - Volume I
Year:
2003

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Abstract

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Mobile Network Emulator (MNE) is a low-cost, flexible wireless mobile internetwork protocol (IP) test environment that provides flexible, dynamic topology control and manipulation for testing of both IPv4 and IPv6 dynamic network scenarios. Direct and indirect software support for network node motion modeling is supported. We describe the emulation design and various software and hardware support components. We also provide a case example of how the mobile emulation system has been applied with a set of ancillary visualization tools, motion generators, and network analysis tools. Finally, we discuss how such an emulation environment provides a valuable engineering tool supplementing more abstract simulation studies and costly, time-consuming field trials of mobile network systems and software.