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The FIT/CorteXlab platform is a wireless testbed situated in Lyon, France, where all radio nodes are confined to an electro- magnetically (EM) shielded environment and have flexible radio-frequency (RF) front-end for experimenting on software defined radio (SDR) and cognitive radio (CR). A unique feature of this testbed is that it offers roughly 40 SDR nodes that can be accessed from anywhere in the world in a reproducible manner: the electro-magnetic shield prevents from external interference and channel variability. In this paper we show why it is important to have such a reproducible radio experiment testbed and we highlight the reproducibility by the channel characteristics between the nodes of the platform. We back our claims with a large set of measurements done in the testbed, that also refines our knowledge on the propagation characteristics of the testbed.
The FIT/CorteXlab testbed is a part of the Future Internet of Things (FIT) project and federation of testbeds. This work has been supported by the FIT project.
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For more information on FIT/CorteXlab, please refer to the website: http://www.cortexlab.fr/.
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Cardoso, L.S., Oubejja, O., Villemaud, G., Risset, T., Gorce, J.M. (2018). Reliable and Reproducible Radio Experiments in FIT/CorteXlab SDR Testbed: Initial Findings. In: Marques, P., Radwan, A., Mumtaz, S., Noguet, D., Rodriguez, J., Gundlach, M. (eds) Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. CrownCom 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 228. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76207-4_19
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