Poster: Making D-Cube an Open Low-Power Wireless Networking Benchmark

To facilitate a reproducible benchmarking of low-power wireless systems, open-source tools and an agreed-upon set of scenarios and metrics are necessary. To this end, in 2016, we created D-Cube, a low-cost measurement tool that can accurately measure in hardware key performance metrics such as end-to-end delay, reliability, and power consumption. Through the past four years, D-Cube has mainly been used to support a dependability competition comparing the performance of state-of-the-art protocols under the same settings. In this poster, we outline the recent evolution of D-Cube from a distributed measurement tool used in public benchmarking events to an open benchmark available to the community as a common yardstick for evaluating and comparing the performance of low-power wireless systems.