International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TRIDENTCOM)
First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities
23-25 Feb. 2005
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Proceedings. First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities
Publication Year: 2005
Proceedings. First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities
The IMS playground @ FOKUS-an open testbed for generation network multimedia services
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):2 - 11
The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) defined by the 3/sup rd/ Generation Partnership Projects (3GPP and 3GPP2) represents today the global Service Delivery Platform (SDP) standard for providing multimedia applications in Next Generation Networks (NGN). It defines an overlay service architecture that merges the paradigms and technologies of the Internet with the cellular and fixed telecommunication wo...Show More
Performance evaluation of recovery techniques in a grid oriented Metrocore/VESPER field trial
D. Adami;P. Castoldi;F. Cugini;S. Giordano;M. Repeti;L. Valcarenghi
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):12 - 21
Cited by: Papers (4)
The introduction of advanced features, provided by the emerging next generation networks based on the Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS) protocol framework in grid computing systems, promises to significantly improve the performance of distributed applications and services. An accurate experimental analysis of the main GMPLS features, such as the different reliability solutions, is ...Show More
A testbed and research network for next generation services over next generation networks
B. Ionescu;M. Ionescu;S. Veres;D. Ionescu;F. Cuervo;M. Luiken-Miller
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):22 - 31
Cited by: Papers (11)
The complexity of today's data communication networks necessitates complete, realistic and sophisticated testing grounds for verifying and validating their functionality. Network testing grounds are restricted to laboratories and environments isolated from real life scenarios. Testing in production and commercial networks is typically forbidden since they present a high degree of risk factors for ...Show More
An experience in IPv6 networking supporting Ecumene Web information system for cultural heritage
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):32 - 41
Cited by: Papers (1)
People interested in Cultural Heritage constitute a community of users characterized by a high degree of mobility. Users visiting cultural sites hosted by local institutions expect to access information pertaining to cultural/artistic heritage from anywhere at anytime, as they can through the desk at their own homes or offices. The Ecumene Web Information System, developed in the groundwork of the...Show More
Design considerations on the CREATE-NET testbed
I. Carreras;R. Grasso;C. Kiraly;S. Pera;H. Woesner;Y. Ye;C.A. Szabo
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):44 - 53
Cited by: Papers (3)
The CREATE-NET testbed is a long term project aiming at implementing a best state-of-the-art infrastructure able to link together research centers, both from academia and industrial bodies, in order to create a fruitful collaborative environment to help generating new ideas for advanced applications and services, developing new protocols, testing and integrating different vendor equipments. This t...Show More
Ubiquitous home: real-life testbed for home context-aware service
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):54 - 59
Cited by: Papers (54)
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology of Japan completed a real-life testbed, called the "ubiquitous home", for home context-aware service experiments in 2004. From the viewpoint of sensor ubiquity, the Ubiquitous Home is superior to other similar testbeds. At the Ubiquitous Home, experimenters can collect real-life data as if living in their own house, not in a labor...Show More
A testbed for evaluating human interaction with ubiquitous computing environments
E. O'Neill;M. Klepal;D. Lewis;T. O'Donnell;D. O'Sullivan;D. Pesch
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):60 - 69
Cited by: Papers (30)
Core to ubiquitous computing environments are adaptive software systems that adapt their behavior to the context in which the user is attempting the task the system aims to support. This context is strongly linked with the physical environment in which the task is being performed. The efficacy of such adaptive systems is thus highly dependent on the human perception of the provided system behavior...Show More
An open access wideband multiantenna wireless testbed with remote control capability
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):72 - 81
This paper introduces an open access wideband multiantenna wireless testbed. The testbed is configured as a four transmit antenna by four receive antenna system based on software defined radio technology. It operates in the 2.4 GHz ISM band and supports an RF bandwidth compatible to IEEE 802.11a/g standard. A robotic positioning system has been developed to automatically control the position and o...Show More
A geography-aware scalable community wireless network test bed
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):82 - 91
Cited by: Papers (1)
Wireless mesh networks have increasingly become an object of interest in recent years as a strong alternative to purely wired infrastructure networks and purely mobile wireless networks. Given the challenges that have arisen in construction, deployment and maintenance of wireless mesh networks, we outline a broad experimental research program in the area of medium-to-large scale community wireless...Show More
A low-cost and simple-to-deploy peer-to-peer wireless network based on open source Linux routers
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):92 - 97
In this paper we present our work towards deploying a community wireless network with ad hoc communication and routing between its elements. We describe our network model and implementation of wireless routers, while motivating decisions and pointing out open issues. The main advantage of our approach is the low deployment cost and inherent flexibility in terms of adapting the network configuratio...Show More
A testbed and methodology for experimental evaluation of wireless mobile ad hoc networks
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):100 - 109
Cited by: Papers (28)
Wireless mobile ad hoc network experimentation is subjected to stochastic factors from the radio environment and node mobility. To achieve test repeatability and result re-producibility such stochastic factors need to be controlled or assessed in order to obtain conclusive results. This has implications on the design of testbeds. We present a methodology that addresses repeatability and describe h...Show More
A testbed for experimentation of innovative services in the B3G framework
A. Fresa;G. Iacovoni;M. Longo;A.L. Robustelli;A. Senatore;F. Toro
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):110 - 119
UMTS 3G networks are going to be widely deployed commercially, even if in their first releases they will be mainly focused on telephony and multimedia services based on circuit switched technologies. The roll out of the 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), that can be forecast to happen in the next few years, will introduce mobile users to a new class of multimedia services based on the Internet pr...Show More
Running variance metric for evaluating performance of wireless IP networks in the MobileCty testbed
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):120 - 127
Cited by: Papers (3)
This paper proposes and analyzes a Running Variance Metric performance measurement of wireless local area networks and its formal aspects. Our approach evaluates the performance of wireless local area networks in infrastructure mode as well as in ad hoc mode. The Running Variance Metric is used to discover relative traffic loads of available access-points/gateways at the network layer in order to ...Show More
Wireless link SNR mapping onto an indoor testbed
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):130 - 135
Cited by: Papers (21)
To facilitate a broad range of experimental research on novel protocols and application concepts, we consider an indoor wireless testbed to emulate the performance of real-world networks. A fundamental issue for emulation is the replication of communication links of specified quality. In particular, we need to replicate on the testbed, for every link in the real world, a communication link whose r...Show More
ORBIT testbed software architecture: supporting experiments as a service
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):136 - 145
Cited by: Papers (39)
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.Show More
ORBIT Measurements framework and library (OML): motivations, implementation and features
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):146 - 152
Cited by: Papers (26)
In this paper we present ORBIT measurement framework and library (OML), which is a distributed software framework enabling real-time collection of data in a large distributed environment. The success of a multiuser distributed testbed facility depends largely on the ease of use, remote access as well as on the ease of collecting useful measurements from experimental runs. OML provides a flexible a...Show More
Addressing repeatability in wireless experiments using ORBIT testbed
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):153 - 160
Cited by: Papers (8)
With the rapid growth in research activity on future wireless networking applications and protocols, experimental study and validation is becoming an increasingly important tool to obtain realistic results that may not be possible under the constrained environment of network simulators. However, experimental results must be reproducible and repeatable for them to be used to compare proposed system...Show More
Scalable testbed for next-generation wireless networking technologies
M. Takai;R. Bagrodia;M. Gerla;B. Daneshrad;M. Fitz;M.S.E. Belding-Royer;S. Krishnamurthy;M. Molle;P. Mohapatra;R. Rao;U. Mitra;C.-C. Shen;J. Evans
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):162 - 171
This paper presents an overview of a new wireless network research testbed being developed by several wireless communications and networking research groups at UCLA. Its primary objective is to provide researchers at every layer of the protocol stack, from physical devices to transport protocols, a testbed to evaluate the impact of their technology on application level performance, using scalable ...Show More
A practical approach for 4G systems: deployment of overlay networks
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):172 - 181
Cited by: Papers (12)
Experimental activities play a vital role in the deployment and development of novel radio access networks. In particular the movement from 3G to 4G poses new challenges, which need to be solved using practical approaches such as testbeds. This paper presents a testbed that can be regarded as an early attempt to build a 4G system. It fully integrates heterogeneous wireless technologies using a loo...Show More
Analysis and experimentation over heterogeneous wireless networks
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):182 - 191
Cited by: Papers (16)
Wireless and mobile networks represent an enabling technology for ubiquitous access to information systems. However, there are critical issues that still prevent the widespread use of these technologies. In this paper we analyze and discuss our experience over a real ubiquitous network testbed capable to provide a seamless hand-off among heterogeneous networks. We describe Mobile IPv6/IPv4 interop...Show More
A global X-bone for network experiments
J.D. Touch;Y.-S. Wang;V. Pingali;L. Eggert;R. Zhou;G.G. Finn
Publication Year: 2005,Page(s):194 - 203
Cited by: Papers (32)
A global Internet overlay testbed is being deployed to support the distributed, shared use of resources for network research. The Global X-Bone (GX-Bone) augments the X-Bone software system, enhancing its coordination mechanisms to support deployment of local overlays to world-wide, shared infrastructure. The GX-Bone is based on the X-Bone's Virtual Internet Architecture which extends the Internet...Show More
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