A Remote Testbed System for Mobile Ad-hoc/Sensor Networks

Nodes in a mobile ad-hoc/sensor networks (MANET) can move at any speed and direction independently. Thus, it's difficult to design a testbed system for network working under such circumstance. Different from traditional software simulation or vehicle-loaded methods, a remote network performance testbed system is proposed in this paper. The main idea of our proposed system is using the rotary motion to create such velocity-changing context. Then, we designed and realized a high speed rotary turntable platforms. Nodes can be deployed on the rotary platform, thus it can movement with the platform at a high speed (up to 168 km/h) during test. Shown by the experiments, the approach is simple, efficient and reliable. The reason of network packet loss in our testbed is also analyzed and tested in this research.