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 for PHY/MAC measurements
• Athstats — ORBIT customized athstats tool.
• 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
• Tips and Troubleshooting
• iwpriv to set Madwifi Driver Parameters
• Using AODV
• Using Noise Generator in the experiment

Benchmark numbers from the testbed

• Benchmarking throughput

Sample Topology Files

• A few sample topologies

Internal ORBIT Developer Area

• Internal Developers Area

Publications

• Annotated bibliography of publications related to ORBIT