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
• 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
• Other Traffic Generators
• APIs — Using ORBIT Web based services

Some How To's ¶

• AP Bridge — Configuring an ORBIT node as an AP with bridging
• How to launch your applications using nodeHandler
• Netfilter/iptables
• Building an Orbit Testbed
• Tips and Troubleshooting
• iwpriv to set Madwifi Driver Parameters

Benchmark numbers from the testbed ¶

• Benchmarking throughput

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 ¶