A Real-World Test-bed for Mobile Ad hoc Networks: Methodology, Experimentations, Simulation and Results.

June 25, 2007
Per Gunningberg | Computer Communication, Uppsala University

The talk will focus on two parts. The first part will be on how to design a test-bed of real ad hoc nodes moving around in an office environment. The main challenge is how to create experimental repeatability when nodes are carried around by humans under varying radio conditions. The second part of the talk will be on the value of combining simulation, emulation and real world test-beds for the same testing scenario. Results will be presented that are not visible in simulations. Protocol constructs that improve performance in simulations are shown to degrade performance in the real world.

Speaker Details

Per Gunningberg is professor of Computer Communication at Uppsala University. He holds a Phd Uppsala University from 1983, and a MS from University of California Los Angeles. Before joining Uppsala University in 1995 I was at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science. He has recently been an associate editor for the IEEE Transaction of Mobile Computing and a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for ACM SIGCOMM. In June 2006 he co-organized ACM MobiSys. Dr Gunningberg is a co-founder of the startup company OptiMobile(2003). In 2006 he was awarded a 10 year funding grant on a center for Wireless Sensor Networks, WISENET, funded by Vinnova Sweden. Currently he is visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. His interests include ad hoc and sensor networking, measurements and VoIP wireless overlays.Additional Details: http://user.it.uu.se/~perg/