Design and Deployment of Testbed for Experimental Sensor Network Research

Abstract

This paper presents the Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN) testbed, which is deployed at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), in Republic of Korea. USN testbed is a state-of-the-art sensor network experimental facility composed of various components. It includes heterogeneous sensor nodes with variety of sensing module ranging from ultralow power to high performance hardware platforms, a scalable and reliable Ethernet based wired backplane network to program, interact with and receive/send data from/to the sensor nodes, an easily extendable application software suite which glues and drive everything in a user friendly manner, and an indoor and outdoor deployment space offering various environmental characteristics. We also included two case studies where researchers have put USN testbed into practice for experimental evaluation of algorithms and networking protocols. The case studies cover routing and clustering protocol in wireless sensor networks.

Testbed Facilities for IoT and Wireless Sensor Networks: A Systematic Review

“…Dandelion [24] 2019 NA Yes Indoor and outdoor DUTs, sub-GHz LoRa DUTs Open CLORO [25] 2019 NA No DUTs include moving robot, Android app for robot movement control FIST [26] 2012 NA No Wirelessly managed DUTs, the same radio channel for control and experimentation, tree topology City of Things [27] 2016 NA Yes Urban deployment, integrated big data analysis, includes wearables, data visualization AssIUT IoT [28] Update [29] 2018 4 No DUTs supporting LoRa, WiFi, ZigBee and Cellular communication, web interface TWECIS [30] Abstract [31] 2014 4 No GPIO event timestamping, support of gdb, network-wide power monitoring Rover [32] 2016 8 No Open source, cheap to implement Ocean-TUNE UCONN testbed [33] 2014 [41] 2011 27 Yes Mobile and static DUTs, a large variety of sensors, time synchronization, indoor positioning, robot movement control CaBIUs [42] 2020 30 No Custom designed programming language, web interface SDNWisebed [43] 2019 40 No SDN networking support, traffic statistics for DUTs I3ASensorBed [44] 2013 46 No Wide range of sensors, including CO2, presence, smoke, etc. OpenTestBed [45] 2019 80 Yes Fully open-source FlockLab [46] Demo [47] 2013 106 Yes GPIO tracing and actuation, power monitoring, time synchronization EDI TestBed [23] Updates [48][49][50][51] 2015 110 Yes GPIO interaction, power monitoring, ADC and DAC interaction, versatile deployment options, CLI RT Lab [52] 2015 115 Yes Indoor and outdoor DUTs, online code editing, parameterized control, digital multimeter for power monitoring Indriya [53] 2012 127 Yes Small maintenance costs, distributed in three floors NetEye [54] 2012 130 Yes Topology control, health monitoring, policy-based scheduling USN testbed [55] 2020 142 No Indoor and outdoor DUTs, management GUI LinkLab [56] 2020 155 Yes Web interface, online compilation, self-inspection module SmartCampus [57] Demo …”

“…The only testbed facility to use Power over Ethernet (PoE) for the DUT connection interface is the USN testbed by Mir et al [55]. The necessity for PoE connection severely limits the possible kinds of DUT in the sensor network domain, while providing a more capable and direct communication channel.…”