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A networked robot system for wireless network emulation

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A networked robot system for wireless network emulation
Abstract—A major barrier to advancing modern wireless networking research is the lack of an effective wireless network simulation platform that simultaneously offers high fidelity, scalability, reproducibility and ease of use. MiNT [8], [7] is an innovative wireless network emulation platform that is specifically designed to satisfy all these desirable properties. To support reconfigurable network topology and wireless node mobility, MiNT is built on a networked robot system that carries wireless networking equipments and is designed to be completely tetherless, capable of supporting 24X7 operation, and low-cost. This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of this networked robot system. Each robot node in MiNT is an iRobot’s Roomba, which is modified to house an embedded PC equipped with multiple wireless networking interfaces and to re-charge the embedded PC through Roomba’s built-in self-charging mechanism. For robot navigation and movement, MiNT’s net...
Tzi-cker Chiueh, Rupa Krishnan, Pradipta De, Jui-H
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where ROBOCOMM
Authors Tzi-cker Chiueh, Rupa Krishnan, Pradipta De, Jui-Hao Chiang
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