Tutornet: A Tiered Wireless Sensor Network Testbed

Overview

Tutornet currently consist of 13 clusters, with each cluster consisting of a stargate and several motes attached to it via USB cables. These stargates communicate with a central PC over 802.11b, from where any node on the testbed can be programmed. Thus a testbed consisting of 13 stargates and 104 motes ( 91 tmoteSky and 13 MicaZ ) is currently running in Ronald Tutor Hall at University of Southern California.

Download Tutornet Topology

The main features of Tutornet are:

• Tiered sensor network testbed: consists of 3 tiers. Staring with top tier, the testbed sever is on the top, Stargates, and then motes respectively.
• Wireless multi-hop routing between the testbed server and a stargate or among stargate.
• Remote and parellel programming mote

Components of Tutornet

People

• Ki-Young Jang
• Marcos Vieira
• Sumit Rangwala
• Omprakash Gnawali
• Ramesh Govindan

Using Tutornet

You can use Tutornet using the following procedure: