A management suite for a disruption-tolerant wireless network testbed

This paper describes a management suite that we developed for our heterogeneous disruption-tolerant wireless network testbed. Unlike other testbeds whose administrative backchannels have continuous connection, the backchannel of our network is connected to nodes only sporadically, and so our management suite must be designed to accommodate this unusual nature. Our testbed includes shuttles that are part of the UC Santa Cruz campus transportation network. To mitigate deployment costs, we include features in our testbed that make it beneficial to a wider user community, thereby encouraging other campus services to enter into a partnership with us to maintain the testbed.