ORBIT testbed software architecture: supporting experiments as a service

This paper presents the software architecture of the ORBIT radio grid testbed. We describe the requirements for supporting the lifecycle of an experiment and how they influenced the overall design of the architecture. We specifically highlight those components and services which will be visible to a user of the ORBIT testbed.

1. Introduction

The ORBIT project [1] provides a flexible wireless network testbed that is open to the experimental research community. It was started to address limitations in understanding real world wireless networks caused by the community's reliance on simulations based on simplifying assumptions, or simple experiments with a small number of devices.