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.

• Tutorials and Basic HOW-TOs — A good starting point for new experimenters
• NodeHandler — The Orbit Experiment Control Framework
• orbitHandler — An Alternative Node Control Framework (no longer supported)
• 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
• Noise Injection Subsystem — Using ORBIT noise injection service
• USRP2 — Using USRP2 (N210) via UHD
• USRP2 RF calibration data — Calibration data for USRP2s & N210s
• GNURadio — Using GNURadio on Sandbox5
• Bluetooth — Current state of Bluetooth on ORBIT

Wireless hardware maps ¶

• Wireless cards on the grid
• Wireless cards on the sandboxes

Wimax radio for experimenters ¶

• Internal/Tutorial - Sample experiments
• Internal/WiMax - Client side radio measurement application with GPS & OML logging.

Distribution and Driver Developers ¶

• Developers — A quick guide on getting setup on Orbit
• BuildingDrivers — Details on how to easily build drivers on our images
• Supported Images — Supported images
• UserContributedImages - User contributed images

Orbit Developers ¶

• Orbit-PXE — Details about the intermediary image used to image and save node images

Some How To's ¶

• AP Bridge — Configuring an ORBIT node as an AP with bridging
• How to launch your applications using nodeHandler
• Which nodes have Intel cards
• Using AODV
• Using Noise Generator in the experiment
• Solve BSSID Partitioning in Ad-hoc Networks — A simple madwifi driver fix
• Transparent Virtual Mobility — A madwifi driver fix that allows arbitrary topologies and virtual mobility
• Virtual Mobility using Spatial Switching

Benchmark numbers from the testbed ¶

• Benchmarking throughput

Internal ORBIT Developer Area ¶

• Internal Developers Area
• Open Flow The flow.. not closed.

Publications ¶

• Annotated bibliography of publications related to ORBIT