By Paolo Pileggi Supervisor: Prof. Pieter Kritzinger 9 May
Wireless Internet (WIN) WIN subset of WMN Evaluate WMN performance under various protocols and schemes. IEEE802.11x DCF (Andrew Symington) OLSR Routing Protocol (Stephen Asherson) 9 May
Experiments with a hardware testbed Software simulation Analytical modelling Limitation and Tradeoff 9 May
Experiments with a hardware testbed Software simulation Analytical modelling 9 May
DNA’s wireless hardware testbed MERAKA Institute, Pretoria 49 node wireless mesh Andrew Symington Other: MIT Roofnet, UCSB MeshNet, … 9 May
Experiments with a hardware testbed Software simulation Analytical modelling 9 May
Discrete event simulation OMNeT++ simulation environment Other: NS-2, Glomosim, … 9 May
Experiments with a hardware testbed Software simulation Analytical modelling 9 May
MQN theory Workload Distribution Assumptions DNA’s MicroSNAP Other: Markov theory, … 9 May
Experiments with a hardware testbed Software simulation + Analytical modelling Software Testbed 9 May
Bring together simulation and analytical modelling in one tool Three components: Machine model Network workload Reporting mechanism 9 May
Machine model Nodes, links, protocols, schemes, … Network Workload Network parameters (Inter-arrival time distributions, mean packet length, …) Reporting mechanism Same for analytical approach and simulation Parameters to report Mean throughput Mean response time Utilisation Mean queue length 9 May
Compare analytical and simulation results … … and possibly the hardware testbed Success = (achieving our goal) Meeting software testbed requirements + evidence of a correctly working tool 9 May
1-2 August Demonstrate prototype 15 Oct Report: first draft 19 Oct Final Report Hand-in 23 Oct Poster and Web page hand-in Nov Final Project Presentation 9 May
Human Resources Andrew Symington (AS) - User Stephen Asherson (SA) - User Paolo Pileggi (PP) Pieter Kritzinger (PSK) - supervisor Requirements: PP, AS & SA Design: PP, AS & SA Development: PP Testing: PP & AS (possibly) Reporting, Web page, Poster & presentation: PP 9 May
Questions? 9 May