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MoViT: The Mobile Network Virtualized Testbed

MoViT is a distributed software suite for the emulation of mobile wireless networks. MoViT provides researchers and developers with a virtualized environment for developing and testing mobile applications and protocols for any hardware and software platform that can be virtualized. The distributed nature of MoViT allows for the emulation of mobile networks of arbitrary size. Additionally, the network connectivity is shaped transparently such that the connectivity observed by each virtual node resembles that of a physical mobile network.

MoViT has been published at VANET’12, June 25, 2012, Low Wood Bay, Lake District, UK. ACM Cit. (dl.acm.org)

History

MoViT was born in 2010 as proof of concept of the PhD work of Eugenio Giordano at University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Giovanni Pau and Mario Gerla.
Lara Codeca, Giulio Grassi, as Exchange Student at UCLA and Brian Geffon as Bachelor Student at UCLA worked on the progect too.

In 2012 Lara moved to Luxembourg under the supervision of Raphael Frank and Thomas Engel and so the University of Luxembourg joined the team too.

Today

At the moment MoViT is not user friendly and requires a lot of work to maintain it.
We want to make it usable for the research community, and this is the reason why now the project is here in Sourceforge.

Roadmap

• [MoViT 1.0]: what we have
  • MoViT overview
  • Experiment controller
  • Host configuration
  • Connectivity manager
  • Mobility generation
  • Connectivity modeling
• [MoViT 2.0]: what we want to achieve

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