Collect WiFi traffic via snooping in a busy environment. Analyze the data. Comment on performance. Are there performance issues? Any interesting observations? Multiple concurrent snoopers will make the work more interesting.
tcpdump - For capturing packets from an interface.
ethereal -
GUI for looking at headers of captured packets. Useful tool for traffic analysis.
tethereal is the command line version of
ethereal.
kismet - Another tool for capturing packets.
madwifi - Linux driver for atheros cards.
iwconfig - Linux utility for configuring card parameters, such as channel, mode, etc.
Elizabeth Belding-Royer's work (UC-Santa Barbara) in IMC 05 and IMC07.
David Kotz's (Dartmouth) work in MobiCom02 and Mobicom04. His group also has some recent work on WiFi measurements.
Ratul Mahajan's (Microsoft Research) work in Sigcomm06.
CRAWDAD.
