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

Tools