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Testbed

About: Testbed is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 10858 publications have been published within this topic receiving 147147 citations. The topic is also known as: test bed.


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TL;DR: The algorithm is implemented in TinyOS and shown to be effective in adapting to local topology changes without incurring global overhead in the scheduling, and the effect of the time-varying nature of wireless links on the conflict-free property of DRAND-assigned time slots is evaluated.
Abstract: This paper presents a distributed implementation of RAND, a randomized time slot scheduling algorithm, called DRAND. DRAND runs in O(delta) time and message complexity where delta is the maximum size of a two-hop neighborhood in a wireless network while message complexity remains O(delta), assuming that message delays can be bounded by an unknown constant. DRAND is the first fully distributed version of RAND. The algorithm is suitable for a wireless network where most nodes do not move, such as wireless mesh networks and wireless sensor networks. We implement the algorithm in TinyOS and demonstrate its performance in a real testbed of Mica2 nodes. The algorithm does not require any time synchronization and is shown to be effective in adapting to local topology changes without incurring global overhead in the scheduling. Because of these features, it can also be used even for other scheduling problems such as frequency or code scheduling (for FDMA or CDMA) or local identifier assignment for wireless networks where time synchronization is not enforced. We further evaluate the effect of the time-varying nature of wireless links on the conflict-free property of DRAND-assigned time slots. This experiment is conducted on a 55-node testbed consisting of the more recent MicaZ sensor nodes.

339 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
17 Oct 2008
TL;DR: Current research on prototypes of multimedia sensors and their integration into testbeds for experimental evaluation of algorithms and protocols for WMSNs are described and open research issues and future research directions are discussed.
Abstract: The availability of low-cost hardware is enabling the development of wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs), i.e., networks of resource-constrained wireless devices that can retrieve multimedia content such as video and audio streams, still images, and scalar sensor data from the environment. In this paper, ongoing research on prototypes of multimedia sensors and their integration into testbeds for experimental evaluation of algorithms and protocols for WMSNs are described. Furthermore, open research issues and future research directions, both at the device level and at the testbed level, are discussed. This paper is intended to be a resource for researchers interested in advancing the state-of-the-art in experimental research on wireless multimedia sensor networks.

338 citations

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TL;DR: This paper presents Multihop Over-the-Air Programming (MOAP), a code distribution mechanism specifically targeted for Mica-2 Motes and shows that a very simple windowed retransmission tracking scheme is nearly as effective as arbitrary repairs and yet is much better suited to energy and memory constrained embedded systems.
Abstract: : Wireless sensor networks consist of collections of small, low-power nodes that interface or interact with the physical environment. The ability to add new functionality or perform software maintenance without having to physically reach each individual node is already an essential service, even at the limited scale at which current sensor networks are deployed. TinyOS supports single-hop over-the-air reprogramming today, but the need to reprogram sensors in a multi-hop network will become particularly critical as sensor networks mature and move toward larger deployment sizes. In this paper we present Multihop Over-the-Air Programming (MOAP), a code distribution mechanism specifically targeted for Mica-2 Motes. We discuss and analyze the design goals, constraints, choices and optimizations focusing in particular on dissemination strategies and retransmission policies. We have implemented MOAP on Mica-2 motes and we evaluate that implementation using both emulation and testbed experiments. We show that our dissemination mechanism obtains a 60-90% performance improvement in terms of required transmissions compared to flooding. We also show that a very simple windowed retransmission tracking scheme is nearly as effective as arbitrary repairs and yet is much better suited to energy and memory constrained embedded systems.

336 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
03 Oct 2016
TL;DR: The potential of the srsLTE library is shown by extending the baseline code to allow LTE transmissions in the unlicensed bands and coexistence with WiFi by showing how different vendor-specific mechanisms in WiFi cards might affect coexistence.
Abstract: Testbeds are essential for experimental evaluation as well as for product development. In the context of LTE networks, existing testbed platforms are limited either in functionality and/or extensibility or are too complex to modify and customise. In this work we present srsLTE, an open-source platform for LTE experimentation designed for maximum modularity and code reuse and fully compliant with LTE Release 8. We show the potential of the srsLTE library by extending the baseline code to allow LTE transmissions in the unlicensed bands and coexistence with WiFi. We also expand previous results on this emerging research area by showing how different vendor-specific mechanisms in WiFi cards might affect coexistence.

322 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
01 Dec 2014
TL;DR: The design goals of the testbed are detailed, the signaling and system architecture are discussed, and initial measured results for a uplink Massive MIMO over-the-air transmission from four single-antenna UEs to 100 BS antennas are shown.
Abstract: Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is one of the main candidates to be included in the fifth generation (5G) cellular systems. For further system development it is desirable to have real-time testbeds showing possibilities and limitations of the technology. In this paper we describe the Lund University Massive MIMO testbed — LuMaMi. It is a flexible testbed where the base station operates with up to 100 coherent radio-frequency transceiver chains based on software radio technology. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) based signaling is used for each of the 10 simultaneous users served in the 20 MHz bandwidth. Real time MIMO precoding and decoding is distributed across 50 Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGAs with PCI-Express interconnects. The unique features of this system are: (i) high throughput processing of 384 Gbps of real time baseband data in both the transmit and receive directions, (ii) low-latency architecture with channel estimate to precoder turnaround of less than 500 micro seconds, and (iii) a flexible extension up to 128 antennas. We detail the design goals of the testbed, discuss the signaling and system architecture, and show initial measured results for a uplink Massive MIMO over-the-air transmission from four single-antenna UEs to 100 BS antennas.

311 citations


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Performance
Metrics
No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023917
20222,046
2021499
2020590
2019693
2018639