Design of testbed for wireless mesh networks

Author

Bialkowski, Konstanty ; Portmann, Marius

Author_Institution

Queensland Lab., Nat. ICT Australia, QLD, Australia

fYear

2010

fDate

11-17 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper a testbed for evaluating 802.11 wireless devices as part of a wireless mesh network has been presented. Full design details of this instrumentation have been given. Whilst full RF emulation is not supported by this testbed, a large range of topologies and wireless environments can be accurately modelled for wireless experimentation. The operation of the developed testbed has been demonstrated in two examples focusing on throughput and SNR based results of a mesh network formed by up to 5 wireless nodes. Further enhancement of this testbed is planned. This will include the use of RF noise generators and extending certain links with full wireless emulation using an FPGA.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; telecommunication network topology; wireless mesh networks; 802.11 wireless devices; FPGA; RF emulation; RF noise generators; SNR; full wireless emulation; topology; wireless environments; wireless experimentation; wireless mesh networks; wireless nodes; Ad hoc networks; Attenuators; Computational modeling; Emulation; Performance evaluation; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4967-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2010.5562247

Filename

5562247