MobilityFirst Tutorials

Overview:

Series of exercises that are intended as an introduction to experimentation with MobilityFirst Future Internet Architecture (FIA) project code base.

In all three tutorials, the experimenter will exercise with a simple network topology as shown in the figure:

In the first exercise, the experimenter will establish a simple topology consisting of MobilityFirst routers, hosts and applications, deploy the software components onto physical nodes, and run an end-to-end 'ping' application. In the second exercise, the experimenters will generate synthetic traffic through the router and measure key performance characteristics such as throughput and forwarding latency. The third exercise is focused on writing, compiling, and running a simple content distribution application using MobilityFirst's client API.

Prerequisites

For this set of MobilityFirst tutorials, experimenters are expected to have basic networking knowledge and familiarity with Linux OS. The exercises are performed on the ​ORBIT testbed and require ORBIT account and SSH client installed and configured on the machine that will be used to access the console.

Tools

The only tools that are required for running experiments in this tutorial are SSH client and graph/visualization tools of experimenters choice (results are presented in standard formats including CSV and XML).

How to get help

Best place to get help is the ORBIT user mailing list to which all registered users are automatically subscribed to.

Resources

More information about MobilityFirst is available on the ​MobilitFirst site while more details on the OMF/OML is available at ​ORBIT and ​OMF sites.

Tutorial Instructions

• Design, Deployment and Connectivity Testing for MobilityFirst Network
• Measuring Performance of a MobilityFirst Router
• Socket Programming using New MobilityFirst NetAPI