Tutorial for Hurdle3-like experiment

Objective

Use OEDL script to execute transmit and receive benchmark scripts on the grid.

Hardware / Software Resources utilized

1. Two grid nodes with USRPs.
2. baseline-gnu-12-04-32bit.ndz: disk image loaded onto nodes. This image has all the prerequisite software to configure the USRPs.
3. Orbit's Arbitrary Waveform Injection System: used to inject noise or simple signal into RF environment; more information of the waveform generator service can be found ​interference AM pages.
4. Packet server: This is server that resides on the grid console and is used by a transmitting node to send data packets over the air via USRP as well as by the receiving node to submit received packets for scoring.
5. dsc-h3.rb: this is the ODEL experiment script to manage the nodes, interference service and packet server and execute the transmit and receive scripts.

Set up

• To get started first make a reservation on the ​Orbit Scheduler for using the Grid.

• After logging into grid console, make sure all nodes are turned off (in the example below, turn off all the nodes in the grid):

  username@console.grid:~$ omf tell -a offh -t system:topo:all
  

• Verify state of node before continuing. Make sure nodes are in the POWEROFF state.

  username@console.grid:~$ omf stat
  

• Image the two nodes used in the tutorial (node1-1 and node20-20):

  username@console.grid:~$ omf load -i baseline-gnu-12-04-32bit.ndz -t node1-1.grid.orbit-lab.org,node20-20.grid.orbit-lab.org -r 20
  

• After nodes are imaged, verify that nodes are in POWEROFF state. Otherwise issue the following to turn them off for a reboot

  username@console.grid:~$ omf tell -a offh -t node1-1.grid.orbit-lab.org,node20-20.grid.orbit-lab.org
  

• Turn nodes back on and verify they are in POWERON state

  username@console.grid:~$ omf tell -a on -t node1-1.grid.orbit-lab.org,node20-20.grid.orbit-lab.org
  

• Download the OEDL experiment script for this tutorial to your local directory.

  username@console.grid:~$ wget http://www.orbit-lab.org/raw-attachment/wiki/DSC/dc_trial1/dc.rb
  

Run the experiment script

• Type to following command to run the experiment. This will start the packet server, configure and start the interference generator and finally kick off the transmit and receive benchmark scripts within the nodes. The actual transmission/reception will run for 100 seconds (which can be adjusted with the property at the top of the script).

  username@console.grid:~$ omf exec dc.rb
  

• The output should look similar to the following:

  username@console.grid:~# omf exec dc.rb
  
   INFO NodeHandler: OMF Experiment Controller 5.4 (git 578791f)
   INFO NodeHandler: Slice ID: default_slice (default)
   INFO NodeHandler: Experiment ID: default_slice-2013-06-16t11.47.35.694-04.00
   INFO NodeHandler: Message authentication is disabled
   INFO Experiment: load system:exp:stdlib
   INFO property.resetDelay: resetDelay = 230 (Fixnum)
   INFO property.resetTries: resetTries = 1 (Fixnum)
   INFO Experiment: load system:exp:eventlib
   INFO Experiment: load system:exp:winlib
   INFO Experiment: load dc.rb
   INFO property.rxnode: rxnode = "node1-1.grid.orbit-lab.org" (String)
   INFO property.txnode: txnode = "node20-20.grid.orbit-lab.org" (String)
   INFO property.rate: rate = "1.25M" (String)
   INFO property.modulation: modulation = "bpsk" (String)
   INFO property.freq: freq = "1900000000" (String)
   INFO property.runtime: runtime = 100 (Fixnum)
   INFO ALL_UP_AND_INSTALLED: Event triggered. Starting the associated tasks.
   INFO exp: Give machines some time to warm up :-)
   INFO exp: Request from Experiment Script: Wait for 2s....
   INFO exp: Starting the packet server
   INFO  11:47:49.031 - Starting the server at
   INFO  11:47:49.033 - Starting UDP sender server at 5101
   INFO  11:47:49.033 - Starting TCP receiver server at 5102
   INFO  11:47:49.033 - Starting UDP receiver server at 5103
   INFO  11:47:49.033 - Starting TCP sender server at 5100
   INFO exp: Configuring interference
   INFO exp: Starting interference
   INFO exp: Starting benchmark_rx
   INFO exp: Starting benchmark_tx
   INFO exp: Runing for 100 seconds...
   INFO exp: Request from Experiment Script: Wait for 100s....
   INFO  11:47:49.318 - Rx Thread count: 1
   INFO  11:47:50.910 - Tx Thread count: 1
  console.grid.orbit-lab.org
  INFO   OML Client V2.8.1 [Protocol V3] Copyright 2007-2012, NICTA
  INFO   Net_stream: connecting to host tcp://idb2.orbit-lab.org:3003
   INFO  11:48:05.910 - t=15000 msec rx/tx/bad packets=580/1678/0 rx/tx bytes=835200/2416320 success=34.565%
   INFO  11:48:20.910 - t=30000 msec rx/tx/bad packets=1123/3279/0 rx/tx bytes=1617120/4721760 success=34.2482%
   INFO  11:48:35.910 - t=45000 msec rx/tx/bad packets=2019/4880/0 rx/tx bytes=2907360/7027200 success=41.373%
   INFO  11:48:50.910 - t=60000 msec rx/tx/bad packets=2678/6481/0 rx/tx bytes=3856320/9332640 success=41.3208%
   INFO  11:49:05.910 - t=75000 msec rx/tx/bad packets=3371/8081/0 rx/tx bytes=4854240/11638080 success=41.71%
   INFO  11:49:20.910 - t=90000 msec rx/tx/bad packets=4121/9683/0 rx/tx bytes=5934240/13943520 success=42.5591%
   INFO exp: Done! Stop eveything
   INFO exp: Request from Experiment Script: Wait for 5s....
   INFO  11:49:30.910 - 100 sec timeout reached - closing connection
   INFO  11:49:30.910 -  TIME = 100000 msec rx/tx/bad packets=4731/10750/0 rx/tx bytes=6812640/15480000 success=44.0093%
  INFO   Waiting for buffered queue reader thread to drain...
  INFO   Buffered queue reader thread finished OK...
   INFO  11:49:30.912 - Rx Thread count: 0
   INFO  11:49:30.920 - Tx Thread count: 0
   INFO EXPERIMENT_DONE: Event triggered. Starting the associated tasks.
   INFO NodeHandler: 
   INFO NodeHandler: Shutting down experiment, please wait...
   INFO NodeHandler: 
   INFO run: Experiment default_slice-2013-06-16t11.47.35.694-04.00 finished after 2:1
  

• Turn the nodes off

  username@console.grid:~$ omf tell -a offh -t node1-1.grid.orbit-lab.org,node20-20.grid.orbit-lab.org
  

NOTES:

• In case you interrupt the execution of the script, please make sure that both packet server process on the console and python processes on the nodes are terminated before running the experiment again
• Please monitor the output of the script - if there are any errors indicated, more details can be found in /tmp/"Experimen ID".log ("Experiment ID" is unique to every experiment run and is indicated at the top of the console output - in case of the run shown above the "Experiment ID" is default_slice-2013-06-16t11.47.35.694-04.00 and the log file would be available in /tmp/default_slice-2013-06-16t11.47.35.694-04.00.log)