DES-Testbed

The Distributed Embedded Systems (DES) testbed at the Freie Universität Berlin is a non-commercial research testbed with the focus on wireless mesh networks and wireless sensor networks. Currently it consists of 70 nodes located in the Institute of Computer Science. In the final stage the testbed will comprise 100 nodes deployed on the whole campus, thus creating a non-simplistic network topology.

The testbed follows a hybrid approach. Each DES-Node consists of an embedded PC board, equipped with up to three IEEE 802.11 network cards, and a wireless sensor node. The core of the testbed, called DES-Mesh, is formed by the IEEE 802.11 network, while the wireless sensor nodes create a parallel testbed called DES-WSN.