wineslab / cast

Code for the paper D. Villa, M. Tehrani-Moayyed, P. Johari, S. Basagni, T. Melodia, "CaST: A Toolchain for Creating and Characterizing Realistic Wireless Network Emulation Scenarios," Proceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH), October 2022.

Code for CaST: Channel emulation generator and Sounder Toolchain

This repository contains the code for the paper D. Villa, M. Tehrani-Moayyed, P. Johari, S. Basagni, T. Melodia, "CaST: A Toolchain for Creating and Characterizing Realistic Wireless Network Emulation Scenarios," Proceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH), October 2022.

This work was partially supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant CNS-1925601, and U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration under grant 693JJ321C000009.

How to use it

The channel sounding code of CaST has been adjusted to work on the Colosseum testbed. Colosseum users can make a reservation with the common image "cast" which already contains all latest code ready to run.

To run CaST channel sounding, users can simply leverage the step-by-step interactive bash script that will guide them to input all needed configurations and requirements by executing first on the tx node:

./cast_tx.sh

and then running the receiver node, which is going to perform also the cast post-processing operations, with:

./cast_rx.sh

It is recommended the use of terminal multiplexers like tmux or screen.

References

[1] D. Villa, M. Tehrani-Moayyed, P. Johari, S. Basagni, T. Melodia, "CaST: A Toolchain for Creating and Characterizing Realistic Wireless Network Emulation Scenarios", Proc. of the 16th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH 2022), Sydney, Australia, October 2022. [Paper]

[2] D. Villa, M. Tehrani-Moayyed, C. Robinson, L. Bonati, P. Johari, M. Polese, T. Melodia, "Colosseum as a Digital Twin: Bridging Real-World Experimentation and Wireless Network Emulation," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, in press, 2024. [Paper]

[3] L. Bonati, P. Johari, M. Polese, S. D'Oro, S. Mohanti, M. Tehrani-Moayyed, D. Villa, S. Shrivastava, C. Tassie, K. Yoder, A. Bagga, P. Patel, V. Petkov, M. Seltser, F. Restuccia, A. Gosain, K.R. Chowdhury, S. Basagni, T. Melodia, "Colosseum: Large-Scale Wireless Experimentation Through Hardware-in-the-Loop Network Emulation," Proc. of IEEE Intl. Symp. on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), Virtual Conference, December 2021. [Paper]

[4] https://www.northeastern.edu/colosseum/

[5] https://www.github.com/wineslab/cast/