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
• 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

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

Publications

• Annotated bibliography of publications related to ORBIT