Scorpion Testbed - i-NRG Wiki

Contents

Introduction
Objective
Goals
Nodes
Management
Paparazzi
Publications

Introduction

The SCORPION project aims to build a heterogeneous wireless networking testbed that includes a variety of mobile nodes ranging from ground vehicles to autonomous aerial vehicles.

Objective

The objective of this project is to test and evaluate a variety of wireless network protocols, including multi-radio, multi-channel medium access control, multi-hop wireless ad-hoc routing, as well as disruption-tolerant routing and message delivery protocols for networks with varying connectivity.

Goals

The varied mobility patterns exhibited by these nodes allow for unique and innovative ways to test network protocols for current as well as next-generation network applications.

Nodes

	Airplane Node 4 autonomous airplanes and 4 self-stabilizing helicopters provide aerial coverage.
	Bus Node 40 nodes are equipped with wireless radios and deployed on campus busses in order to blanket the area effectively.
	Briefcase Node 20 nodes are carried by students via foot or bicycle while constantly transmitting data to other nodes they come into contact with.
	i-Robot Node 20 terrestrial nodes roam the ground in an unpredictable way, making the testbed’s behavior unspecified.

Management

All nodes run a bootup script that invokes a series of scripts to initiate management programs and networking protocols.

Paparazzi

Aerial nodes are equipped with Paparazzi autopilot navigation according to GPS waypoints.

Publications

[1]

S. Bromage, C. Engstrom, J. Koshimoto, M. Bromage, S. Dabideen, M. Hu, R. Menchaca-Mendez, D. Nguyen, B. Nunes, V. Petkov, D. Sampath, H. Taylor, M. Veyseh, J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, K. Obraczka, H. Sadjadpour, and B. Smith, “Poster abstract: Scorpion: A heterogeneous wireless networking testbed,” ACM SIGMOBILE Mob. Comput. Commun. Rev., 2009. [ .pdf ]

[2]

S. Bromage, J. Koshimoto, C. Engstrom, M. Bromage, V. Petkov, B. Nunes, H. Taylor, K. Obraczka, S. Dabideen, M. Hu, R. Menchaca-Mendez, D. Nguyen, D. Sampath, J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, H. Sadjadpour, and B. Smith, “Scorpion: A heterogenous wireless networking testbed,” Poster presented at IEEE Mobicom, 2008. [ .pdf ]