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
• Which nodes have Intel cards
• 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