Philipp Moll presented his paper on “Wireless Network Emulation for Research on Information Centric Networking” at the ACM WiNTECH Workshop 2018.

The WiNTECH workshop explicitly deals with methodological and technical issues that have to be faced for defining, running, controlling and benchmarking experiments on wireless solutions. The workshop, that this year reach the 12th edition, has a consolidated tradition for bringing together an important number of researchers and industry players working in different aspects of experimental wireless communications. This year the workshop was held in conjunction with the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) in New Delhi, India.

Abstract —  When developing new approaches in networking research, one of the most important requirements is to evaluate the degree of improvement of a new approach both realistically and cost- effectively. Wireless networks and their adequate emulation play an important role in evaluation, but emulation of wireless links and networks is still difficult to handle. In this paper, we present a low-cost, fixed-network testbed able to emulate the dynamically changing conditions of wireless links caused by client mobility and physical phenomena. We extend the existing fixed-network testbed for the purpose of wireless network emulation using the Linux tools tc, iptables, and NetEm in sophisticated ways. Convenient function blocks are provided to configure wireless network topologies as well as dynamic link and mobility conditions to be emulated with modest efforts. We utilize the testbed’s capabilities to investigate the influence of different mobility models on streaming SVC-encoded videos in Named Data Networking (NDN), a novel Information-Centric Networking architecture. Furthermore, we evaluate the benefits of using early loss detection mechanisms for streaming in NDN, by implementing Wireless Loss Detection and Recovery (WLDR).
Our results show that the extended fixed-network testbed can precisely emulate wireless network conditions and usage. For instance, the emulation revealed that both the choice of the mobility model and the use of WLDR have a substantial influence on the resulting SVC video streaming performance.

Philipp Moll, Sebastian Theuermann, Hermann Hellwagner. 2018. Wireless Network Emulation for Research on Information-Centric Networking. In 12th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization (WiNTECH ’18), November 2, 2018, New Delhi, India. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267204.3267211