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“rf in the jungle”: effect of environment assumptions on wireless experiment repeatability.
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Burchfield, Ryan Nourbakhsh, Ehsan Dix, Jeff Sahu, Kunal Venkatesan, S. Prakash, Ravi |
| Abstract | Abstract—Most researchers conduct wireless networking ex-periments in their laboratory or similar indoor environments. Such environments are veritable RF jungles, especially when we consider the ISM bands. In this paper we examine and test sev-eral common explicit and implicit assumptions that researchers tend to make about the wireless environment. Although these assumptions are acknowledged by most researchers, the extent of their impact is often underestimated. We find that because the environment is always in flux, it is almost impossible to reproduce the results of an experiment. Hence, there is a high risk of misinterpreting the data obtained from such experiments. Through this paper we try to caution experimenters against such risky assumptions when they venture into the RF jungle. After a successful proof-of-concept experiment, we advocate the use of wireless networking testbeds that provide experimenters better control over the RF environment by using coaxial cables, programmable attenuators and power dividers/combiners. I. |
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| Subject Keyword | Environment Assumption Wireless Experiment Repeatability Similar Indoor Environment Ism Band High Risk Power Divider Combiners Wireless Environment Veritable Rf Jungle Programmable Attenuator Rf Jungle Coaxial Cable Successful Proof-of-concept Experiment Implicit Assumption Sev-eral Common Explicit Risky Assumption Rf Environment |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
