An integrated environment for testing mobile ad-hoc networks
Yongguang Zhang, Wei Li · 2002
Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) has become an increas-ingly active research area with a plethora of work in ad-hoc routing, media access, and protocols, etc. However, much of the effort so far has been in simulation with only a few systems that have ever been implemented and none that we know have been tried in a scale beyond a dozen nodes. One reason is the high complexity involved in implementing and testing actual ad-hoc networks, and the lack of soft-ware tools for doing so. We have thus built an inexpensive and flexible environment to support such tasks and to facil-itate network research. The core component is a mobility emulator to test an ad-hoc network of virtually any scale and with any mobility scenario without actually moving the nodes physically.