A demonstration of the RapidMesh development toolkit

Abstract

We propose the demonstration of the RapidMesh development toolkit for rapid protocol simulation, implementation and experimentation in wireless mesh networks. RapidMesh utilizes declarative networking, a database-inspired extensible infrastructure that uses query languages to specify network behavior. RapidMesh integrates a declarative networking engine with the emerging ns-3 network simulator. Our demonstration presents the experimental evaluation of a variety of declarative MANET routing protocols under different dynamic settings on the ORBIT wireless testbed. The evaluation results are shown in the ns-3 visualizer to display the mobility pattern of network and to compare the protocol performance. We also demonstrate the development cycle for synthesizing and experimenting with new routing protocols.