Abstract Development of applications and protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks has always been a challenge. Specific characteristics such as frequent topology changes due to nodes moving around, popping up or being turned off, need to be considered from the earliest stages of development. Since testing and evaluation using genuine wireless devices is both expensive and highly impractical, other tools need to be used in the development phase. Simulators give a very detailed model of lower layers' behaviors, but code often needs to be completely rewritten in order to be used on actual physical devices. Emulators present a trade-off between real test beds and simulators, providing a virtual wireless network at the lowest layers, and yet allowing real code to be run on the higher layers. In this paper, we present such an emulation platform, called NEMAN, that allows us to run a virtual wireless network of hundreds of nodes on a single end-user machine. NEMAN has shown to be an important and very useful tool during development of different applications and protocols for our project, including a key management protocol and a distributed event notification service.
In REF , authors present an emulation platform called NEMAN that allows running a virtual wireless network of hundreds of nodes on a single end-user machine.
NEMAN: a network emulator for mobile ad-hoc networks
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Telecommunications, 2005. ConTEL 2005.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Telecommunications, 2005. ConTEL 2005.
Computer Science