KonTest : A Wireless Sensor Network Testbed at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

We introduce our 60-node indoor wireless sensor network testbed, distributed among six office rooms. We outline the hardware architecture of the testbed and discuss the basic properties of the internode connectivity graph. In particular, we show that a node in the testbed has from 8 to 31 high-quality neighbors and that the network diameter is between 4 and 5 for the lowest transmission power. The testbed is currently being used as the main evaluation platform for novel wireless sensor network protocols and systems. Faculty of Sciences Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1081A 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands 2 K. Iwanicki et al.

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