WISERLAB Test-Bed
For the real life implementation and testing of our architectures and algorithms, we built an experimental test-bed. The test-bed consists of two networks; an 802.11 network implemented by programmable 802.11 access points and net books, and an SDR network implemented by USRP2 software radios, controlled by PC desktops. The OpenFlow controllers are also implemented on the desktops. All PCs and 802.11 access points are connected through an unmanaged gigabit switch. This setup is shown below.
WISERLAB Test – Bed
For the design of the optimization algorithms and initial simulations, we also bought four rack-mount servers (IBM x3650 M3, 24GB, 2×6-core Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz) and an 8TB NAS server. This setup is shown below.
Rack mount servers and NAS server
For the Wi-Fi Mesh experiments we distributed TP-LINK TL-MR3020 Wi-Fi access points in our testbed across the two floors of OzU Engineering building. We used OpenWRT with B.A.T.M.A.N.–Adv and OLSRd routing modules on the access points to form a mesh network. A schema of the test setup is shown below.
Wi-Fi Mesh Setup