Documentation

The following documents will be helpful in understanding the ORBIT architecture as well as how to use the ORBIT testbed to run your experiments

Starting Points for Experimenters

• Node handler
• OML — The Orbit Measurement Library
• OTG — The Orbit Traffic Measurement Framework
• Tips and Troubleshooting
• How to get started
• Tutorial
• FAQ

Starting Points for Developers

• Projects — Various software packages used in Orbit
  • NodeHandler — The Orbit Experiment Control Framework
  • OML — The Orbit Measurement Library
  • OTG — The Orbit Traffic Measurement Framework
  • Libmac — An Orbit library that enables parameter measurement at the PHY and MAC layers.
  • Athstats — An Orbit tool that periodically queries the ​MadWiFi driver and reports measurements.
  • Aruba sniffers — Using Aruba sniffers
  • AP Bridge — Configuring an ORBIT node as an AP with bridging
  • Other Traffic Generators
  • How to launch your applications using nodeHandler
  • Netfilter/iptables
  • Building an Orbit Testbed
• Misc
  • Demo HowTo
  • User Interface (UI) to the Interference Subsystem

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Some of the common questions have been answered here

Presentations

For further details, please refer the following presentations about ORBIT components

• ​Presents an overview of the ORBIT Testbed
• ​Presents an overview of the ORBIT System Architecture
• ​Presents an overview of the ORBIT Hardware Architecture
• ​Presents an overview of the ORBIT Software Architecture

Publications

• Annotated bibliography of publications related to ORBIT

Internal ORBIT Developer Area

• Internal

Tools