Hydra Source Code

This is an initial release of the source code for the Hydra wireless testbed, licensed under the GPLv3 and the Click License. We hope this release is helpful to individuals and groups doing research in wireless networking, but it is largely "as-is" since we do not have the resources to provide support for it at this time.

To begin using Hydra download and extract the tarball below to your $HOME directory. Read the INSTALL and README instructions provided in the top level of the extracted directory.

http://hydra.ece.utexas.edu/download/hydra-0.2.tar.gz

Software Support

Please do not contact the developers directly with questions. All questions should be directed to the Hydra discussion list:

discuss-hydra@utlists.utexas.edu

Be advised that this code is not officially supported and we cannot guarantee your questions will be answered in a timely manner, if at all. We have provided this list to address major concerns with the code release. Please use discretion to ensure your question is of significant importance before contacting the discussion list.

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Research Citation

Any publications using Hydra software shall include the following citation:

K. Mandke, S. Choi, G. Kim, R. Grant, R. C. Daniels, W. Kim, R. W. Heath, Jr., and S. Nettles, ``Early Results on Hydra: A Flexible MAC/PHY Multihop Testbed,'' in Proc. of IEEE Vehicular Tech. Conf., Dublin, Ireland, Apr. 2007. [bib]

If the research publication takes advantage of multiple-antenna capabilities in Hydra, readers may also be directed to the reference:

K. Mandke, R. C. Daniels, R. W. Heath, Jr., and S. Nettles, ``On the Challenges of Building a Multi-Antenna Software Defined Packet Radio,'' in Proc. of the SDR Technical Conference and Product Exposition, Washington, D.C., Oct. 2008. [bib]

Current and Past Developers

The following developers (included with their core responsibility) have contributed to this Hydra code distribution.

Ketan Mandke -- Overall Software Architecture, Hardware/Software Interfacing, MAC/PHY Interfacing
Robert C. Daniels -- PHY Algorithm Design (IEEE 802.11n)
Soon-Hyeok Choi -- MAC Design
Wonsoo Kim -- MAC Design