Mesh Network Testbed and Video Stream Measurement

In this project, we set up a mesh network testbed with nine desktops and three laptops. We install on desktop two Atheros radio cards and one wispy device to implement a flexibility test environment for mesh network, multi-radios network and measurement based network experiments. Each laptop has one Atheros PCMCIA radio card, which can implement the mobile situation for network measurement. The project is the foundation of the future mesh network research. In order to study the efficiency of the testbed, we used this testbed to measure some basic characteristics of the wireless link and ran a video stream application over the testbed, measuring the video performance with different traffic conditions.