[Tinyos] New in Emulab: Mobile motes, high security, Windows, wifi

[Jay Lepreau]

[Very sorry we missed the ttx last week.  We found out about
it too late; looks like fun and useful.]

We've opened for public use four major new features in Utah's Emulab
network testbed.  They are documented and ready for anyone's reasonable
research or educational use, or just take them for a test drive.

1. 900MHz Motes and 802.11 Stargates on robots: a truly mobile
wireless testbed, with experimenter-specified movements, simple path
planning by Emulab, a vision-based tracking system, live maps, and
webcams.  Control and monitoring are completely integrated into the
existing Emulab system, so a mobile experiment is very similar to a
typical Emulab experiment.  This first installation is small, but it
all works.

This is really three features: mote support (e-mote and Stargate-
hosted currently), Stargate support, and mobility.  We have a
few fixed motes, and will be adding lots more.
   http://www.emulab.net/tutorial/mobilewireless.php3


2,3. Secure environments for running malicious or risky code:
      A per-experiment switch-enforced firewall.
      A per-experiment Emulab, by providing Emulab-in-Emulab.
Plus, at no extra charge, color-coded security levels that
automatically set up different defense levels.
   http://www.emulab.net/tutorial/docwrapper.php3?docname=secure.html


4. Windows XP is a supported test node OS, joining Linux and FreeBSD.
Most Emulab features work, including ssh keys and file service.  It's
got Remote Desktop if you need Windows look-and-feel; it's got Cygwin
if you prefer Unix.
   http://www.emulab.net/doc/docwrapper.php3?docname=windows_in_emulab_user.html


Finally, let me remind you that we also have a non-mobile 802.11a/b/g
testbed available: 27 PCs scattered around our building, most with two
Atheros cards.  You can change the madwifi driver, the OS, everything.
   http://www.emulab.net/tutorial/docwrapper.php3?docname=wireless.html

If any of these features could be useful to you,
sign up at https://www.emulab.net/reqaccount.php3

Kudos to the whole Emulab team, but especially to Tim Stack, David
Johnson, Dan Flickinger, Leigh Stoller (robots); Mike Hibler, Leigh
Stoller (secure env); and Russ Fish, Kirk Webb (Windows).

Jay Lepreau
University of Utah