Abstract
Scientifically sound network studies require the execution of large series of experiments. Researchers usually have to execute experiments manually, a labor-intensive and error-prone task, since there is no automation of the overall experimentation process. This task becomes especially hard on a distributed testbed and the researcher has to deal with additional challenges.
In this paper we introduce the Distributed Embedded Systems Testbed Management System (DES-TBMS) for the automation of experimentation in wireless mesh networks and wireless sensor networks. DES-TBMS consists of several components including a domain specific language to describe and define experiments, a scheduler to manage and control experiments, a distributed monitoring system to gather system data, a visualization tool, and an evaluation tool to compute performance metrics from collected experiment data. Thus, DES-TBMS supports the researcher during the design, execution, and evaluation of experiments.
This work has been partially sponsored and supported by the European Union OPNEX project.
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Güneş, M., Blywis, B., Juraschek, F., Watteroth, O. (2010). Experimentation Made Easy. In: Zheng, J., Mao, S., Midkiff, S.F., Zhu, H. (eds) Ad Hoc Networks. ADHOCNETS 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11723-7_33
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