Demo abstract: RadiaLE: a framework for benchmarking link quality estimators

• Author(s): Baccour, Nouha ; Jamâa, Maissa Ben ; Rosário, Denis do ; Koubâa, Anis ; Alves, Mário ; Becker, Leandro B. ; Youssef, Habib ; Fotouhi, Hossein
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3902
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Document Type: Report
• Language: English

Description

Link quality estimation is a fundamental building block for the design of several different mechanisms and protocols in wireless sensor networks (WSN). A thorough experimental evaluation of link quality estimators (LQEs) is thus mandatory. Several WSN experimental testbeds have been designed ([1–4]) but only [3] and [2] targeted link quality measurements. However, these were exploited for analyzing low-power links characteristics rather than the performance of LQEs. Despite its importance, the experimental performance evaluation of LQEs remains an open problem, mainly due to the difficulty to provide a quantitative evaluation of their accuracy. This motivated us to build a benchmarking testbed for LQE - RadiaLE, which we present here as a demo. It includes (i.) hardware components that represent the WSN under test and (ii.) a software tool for the set up and control of the experiments and also for analyzing the collected data, allowing for LQEs evaluation.