An Intuitive Drag and Drop Framework for Wireless Network Experimentation

Experimental wireless network research is often very time consuming and requires knowledge of multiple experimentation platforms (JFED, OMF, etc.), thereby hindering innovation specially from non-testbed experts. To foster innovation, this paper presents an intuitive wireless experimentation using the Node-RED framework. Within the framework, drag and drop components are combined to set-up wireless experiments in simulation and testbed environments, configure network stack and execute series of experiments. Furthermore, the intuitiveness of the Node-RED framework is demonstrated by using drag and drop components to optimize multiple conflicting objectives in simulation and in a real-testbed, without requiring advanced testbed knowledge.