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RadiaLE: a framework for benchmarking link quality estimators
Ref: HURRAY-TR-100203       Publication Date: 17 to 19, Feb, 2010

Abstract:
Link quality estimation is a fundamental building block for the design of several different mechanisms and protocols in wireless sensor networks (WSN). A thorough experimental evaluation of link quality estimators (LQEs) is thus mandatory. Several WSN experimental testbeds have been designed ([1–4]) but only [3] and [2] targeted link quality measurements. However, these were exploited for analyzing low-power links characteristics rather than the performance of LQEs. Despite its importance, the experimental performance evaluation of LQEs remains an open problem, mainly due to the difficulty to provide a quantitative evaluation of their accuracy. This motivated us to build a benchmarking testbed for LQE - RadiaLE, which we present here as a demo. It includes (i.) hardware components that represent the WSN under test and (ii.) a software tool for the set up and control of the experiments and also for analyzing the collected data, allowing for LQEs evaluation.

Nouha Baccour

,

Maissa ben Jamâa

,

Anis Koubâa

,

Mário Alves

,

Habib Youssef

,

Hossein Fotouhi

,

Denis Rosário

,

Leandro Becker

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