Documentation

The following documents will be helpful in understanding the ORBIT architecture as well as how to use the ORBIT testbed to run your experiments

Starting Points for Experimenters

Collection of documents maintained by Orbit staff; please feel free to contribute.

• NodeHandler — The Orbit Experiment Control Framework
• OML — The Orbit Measurement Library
• OTG — The Orbit Traffic Measurement Framework
• FAQ — some of the common questions that have been answered
• Tips and Troubleshooting
• How to get started
• Tutorial
• OML — The Orbit Measurement Library
• OTG — The Orbit Traffic Measurement Framework
• Libmac — An Orbit library that enables parameter measurement at the PHY and MAC layers.
• Athstats — An Orbit tool that periodically queries the ​MadWiFi driver and reports measurements.
• Aruba sniffers — Using Aruba sniffers
• AP Bridge — Configuring an ORBIT node as an AP with bridging
• Other Traffic Generators
• How to launch your applications using nodeHandler
• Netfilter/iptables
• Building an Orbit Testbed

Presentations

For further details, please refer the following presentations about ORBIT components

• ​Presents an overview of the ORBIT Testbed
• ​Presents an overview of the ORBIT System Architecture
• ​Presents an overview of the ORBIT Hardware Architecture
• ​Presents an overview of the ORBIT Software Architecture

Publications

• Annotated bibliography of publications related to ORBIT

Internal ORBIT Developer Area

• Internal

Tools