PARMENTELAT , Thierry

Reproducibility is key in designing wireless systems and evaluating their performance. Trying to reproduce wireless experimentsallowed us to identify some pitfalls and possible ways to simplify the complex task of avoiding them. In this paper, we expose a fewconsiderations that we learned are instrumental for ensuring the reproducibility of...

Evaluating and comparing performance of wireless systems, like for any other scientific area, requires the ability to reproduce experimental results. In this paper, we describe the specific issues that we encountered when focusing on reproducing the experiments described in a paper related to wireless systems. We selected the OpenRF paper...

In this paper, we present R2lab, an open, electromagnetically insulated research testbed dedicated to wireless networking. We describe the hardware capabilities currently available in terms of Software Defined Radio, and the software suite made available to deploy experiments. Taking as a pretext a dummy experiment, we show how it all fits into...

New cellular technologies combine complex software stacks and heterogeneous hardware. As a result, even if models and simulators are still essential to understand them, validation must go to the next level and rely on real software and hardware testbeds. Unfortunately, building comprehensive testbeds is expensive and this is why we propose the...

Experimentation is an essential step for realistic evaluation of wireless network protocols. The evaluation methodology entails controllable environment conditions and a rigorous and efficient experiment control and orchestration for a variety of scenarios. Existing experiment control tools such as OMF often lack in efficiency in terms of...

We describe a demonstration run on R2lab, an anechoic chamber located at Inria Sophia Antipolis, France. e demonstration consists in deploying a standalone 5G network in less than 5 minutes. All the network components (base station, subscriber management, serving and packet gateways, network traac analyzers) were run automatically using the...

We have provided critical evaluations of new potential testbeds for the evaluation of SDN-based WMNs. We evaluated the R2Lab wireless testbed platform at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France. This testbed has 37 customisable wireless devices in an anechoic chamber for reproducible research in wireless WiFi and 4G/5G networks. Our work presents the...

We describe a demonstration run on R2lab, an open wireless testbed located in an anechoic chamber at Inria Sophia Antipolis. The demonstration consists in easily deploying a Wi-Fi mesh network. The nodes provisioning, configuration and the scenario orchestration and control are automatically done using the nepi-ng experiment orchestration tool....

With MIMO, Wi-Fi led the way to the adoption of antenna array signal processing techniques for fine-grained localization using commodity hardware. These techniques, previously exclusive to specific domains of applications, will spur interest to reach beyond localization, and now allow to consider estimating the device's orientation in space,...