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MiNT-m: an autonomous mobile wireless experimentation platform

Authors:

Ashish Raniwala,

Krishna Tatavarthi,

Nadeem Ahmed Syed,

Srikant Sharma,

Tzi-cker ChiuehAuthors Info & Claims

MobiSys '06: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services

Pages 124 - 137

https://doi.org/10.1145/1134680.1134694

Published: 19 June 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Limited fidelity of software-based wireless network simulations has prompted many researchers to build testbeds for developing and evaluating their wireless protocols and mobile applications. Since most testbeds are tailored to the needs of specific research projects, they cannot be easily reused for other research projects that may have different requirements on physical topology, radio channel characteristics or mobility pattern. In this paper, we describe the design, implementation and evaluation of MiNT-m, an experimentation platform devised specifically to support arbitrary experiments for mobile multi-hop wireless network protocols. In addition to inheriting the miniaturization feature from its predecessor MiNT [9], MiNT-m enables flexible testbed reconfiguration on an experiment-by-experiment basis by putting each testbed node on a centrally controlled untethered mobile robot. To support mobility and reconfiguration of testbed nodes, MiNT-m includes a scalable mobile robot navigation control subsystem, which in turn consists of a vision-based robot positioning module and a collision avoidance-based trajectory planning module. Further, MiNT-m provides a comprehensive network/experiment management subsystem that affords a user full interactive control over the testbed as well as real-time visualization of the testbed activities. Finally, because MiNT-m is designed to be a shared research infrastructure that supports 24x7 operation, it incorporates a novel automatic battery recharging capability that enables testbed robots to operate without human intervention for weeks.

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MiNT-m: an autonomous mobile wireless experimentation platform
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
  2. Real-time systems
2. Networks
  1. Network services
    1. Network monitoring

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MobiSys '06: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services

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DOI:10.1145/1134680

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