Towards Reproducible Wireless Experiments Using R2lab

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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 wireless experiments. en we describe the stepswe have taken to make our experiments easy to reproduce. We specically address issues related to wireless hardware, as well asvarying propagation channel conditions. We show that extensive knowledge of the used hardware and of its design is required toguarantee that the inner state of the system has no negative impact on performance evaluation and experimental results. As for variabilityof channel conditions, we make the case that a special setup or testbed is necessary so that one can control the ambient wireless propagation environment, using for instance, an anechoic chamber like R2lab.

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