Open AccessPerformance Evaluation of Wireless Router Testbed using Raspberry Pi
Author(s) -
Faris Syahmi Samidi,
Muhammad Haqeem,
Nurul Asyikin Mohamed Radzi,
Fairuz Abdullah,
Amiruddin Ismail,
M. Z. Jamaludin,
Yanti Erana Jalil,
Wan Siti Halimatul Munirah Wan Ahmad
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of recent technology and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2277-3878
DOI - 10.35940/ijrte.d5150.118419
Subject(s) - testbed , router , computer science , raspberry pi , one armed router , embedded system , core router , computer network , jitter , wireless , header , operating system , internet of things , telecommunications
This paper proposed a programmable wireless router testbed designed using a microcontroller, Raspberry Pi. The proposed router provides a solution to the limitation of off-theshelf wireless router on its ability to be configured and embedded with new algorithms. The proposed router testbed is designed to have one Header Pi and three Forwarding Pis which act to inject label and forward packet respectively. The evaluation of results is validated with off-the-shelf router. From the setup, it is proven that Raspberry Pi is suitable to be used as a testbed for academic experiment as it has the ability to be reprogrammed. In addition, it has a compact design which eases for laboratories use. Based on the performance evaluation results, both proposed Raspberry Pi router testbed and off-the-shelf router are in line with each other despite the expected differences in terms of throughput, delay and jitter performance. This proves that the designed programmable Raspberry Pi router testbed can be utilized for small-scale hardware experiment purposes rather than software simulation.