Test Configuration

MultiNet was deployed on two laptops running Windows XP Professional: a Compaq Evo N600c and an HP Omnibook 6000. The Compaq laptop had a built in IEEE 802.11b card and we added two more cards; one each in the PCMCIA slots of both the laptops to build a three node network. The two other cards were a Cisco 340 Series and an Orinoco Gold Wireless card. We have also tested MultiNet on the latest Native WiFi cards available to us from AMD and Realtek. All these cards have a maximum data rate of 11 Mbps. We were able to test this implementation for four different IEEE 802.11b APs: a Cisco 340 Series, an EZConnect 2656, a DLink DI-614+ and Native WiFi APs. The results were consistent across these network equipment. Most of our experiments were run in a two network setting, an ad hoc and an infrastructure network.