New grid based test bed environment for carrying out ad-hoc networking experiments

Abstract

To profile the performance of an ad-hoc networking protocol, three possible methods can be applied. The first is to develop a mathematical model for the expected performance, the second is to run a series of computer simulations on the protocols and the third is to do analysis on a real test bed network which has implemented the ad-hoc networking protocol. This paper concerns the third option. Most researchers who have done work on test bed environments have used either indoor Wifi inter-office links or outdoor Wifi inter-residential links. This paper presents a new test bed environment which uses a grid of closely located Wifi enabled computers to carry out experiments.