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WRAPI+ is a tool to monitor wireless statistics, including received signal strength, transmitted frame count, and failed frame transmissions and acknowledgments on a Windows XP end hosts' IEEE 802.11b/g network device. WRAPI+ was built upon the freely available WRAPI C++ library.
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[Tool] tools/collect/802.11/wrapi_plus (v. 2005-05-10)

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version v. 2005-05-10
changes
NAME CHANGED to tools/collect/802.11/wrapi_plus. Also see 'old name' field.
bibtex
@MISC{tools-collect-802.11-wrapi_plus-2005-05-10,
  author = {Feng Li and Mingzhe Li and Bob Kinicki and Mark Claypool},
  title = {{CRAWDAD} tool tools/collect/802.11/wrapi_plus (v. 2005-05-10)}, 
  howpublished = {Downloaded from http://crawdad.cs.dartmouth.edu/tools/collect/802.11/wrapi_plus},
  month = may,  
  year = 2005
}
					
metadata last modified2006-11-09
summary
WRAPI+ is a tool to monitor wireless statistics, including received signal strength, 
transmitted frame count, and failed frame transmissions and acknowledgments on a Windows XP 
end hosts' IEEE 802.11b/g network device. WRAPI+ was built upon the freely available 
WRAPI C++ library.
old name wpi/perform/tool/wrapi_plus
new name tools/collect/802.11/wrapi_plus
release date2005-05-10
web site http://perform.wpi.edu/tools/
wiki go to the wiki page for this tool
keyword802.11, RFMON, signal strength
authorsFeng Li
Mingzhe Li
Bob Kinicki
Mark Claypool
output
MAC Layer Statistics (e.g., RSSI, TransmittedFragmentCout, RetryCount, etc)
parameters
Output file name
usage
1)Before you run wrapi.exe, you need to stop "Wireless Zero Configuration Service".
by typing these two command at the command prompt

"net start ndisuio"
and "net stop WZCSVC"

2) wrapi.exe [filename]
It will generated two logfiles:
[filename]_log.dat: the Mac Layer Statistics Data.
[filename]_en.dat : Key the AP's Information. If there exist multiple APs.
	It will recorder all the AP's Mac address. However, sometime it would
	log a fake AP'MAC.

	If no parameter is given, it will generate logfile names use the current date
	for you such as "20041025153112.dat" and put it in the  same directory.
algorithm
WRAPI+ is an application built upon the freely available C++ library named WRAPI10
that provides function calls to gather wireless statistics in Windows XP. 
When run on an end-host, WRAPI+ periodically (every 500 ms, by default) reports and logs 
IEEE 802.11 network interface statistics that includes received signal strength,
transmitted frame count, and failed frame transmissions and acknowledgments. WRAPI+ is 
provided with source code to maximize reuse and enable measurement customization.
download urlDownload (5.7 MB tar.gz) from US UK
limitation
1) Only works with some chipsets, For example:
Net Gear WG511g v1 card.
Lucent ORiNOCO wireless cards,
Cisco Aironet cards (340 and 4800 series),
Compaq and Dell in-built wireless cards, (Dell could not get Fail Count)
Linksys cards. (not sure)

[Author] Feng Li

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emaillif@cs.wpi.edu
departmentComputer Science
institutionWorcester Polytechnic Institute
related data/toolstools/collect/802.11/wrapi_plus (v. 2005-05-10)

[Author] Mingzhe Li

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emaillmz@cs.wpi.edu
departmentComputer Science
institutionWorcester Polytechnic Institute
related data/toolstools/collect/802.11/wrapi_plus (v. 2005-05-10)

[Author] Bob Kinicki

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emailrek@cs.wpi.edu
institutionWorcester Polytechnic Institute
departmentComputer Science
positionProfessor
addressComputer Science Department, Fuller Labs 135, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
phone508-831-6116
web site http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~rek/
related data/toolstools/collect/802.11/wrapi_plus (v. 2005-05-10)

[Author] Mark Claypool

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emailclaypool@cs.wpi.edu
institutionWorcester Polytechnic Institute
departmentComputer Science
positionAssociate Professor
address100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
phone508-831-5409
fax508-831-5776
web site http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/
related data/toolstools/collect/802.11/wrapi_plus (v. 2005-05-10)

[Paper] li-tools

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category inproceedings
authorsFeng Li
Mingzhe Li
Rui Lu
Huahui Wu
Mark Claypool
Robert Kinicki
titleTools and Techniques for Measurement of IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
booktitleProceedings of the Second Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements (WiNMee 2006)
addressBoston, MA, USA
month--04--
year2006
download urlhttp://www.winmee.org/papers/02-01.pdf
keywordsmeasurement
keywordswireless
keywordstools_collect_802.11_wrapi_plus
keywordscrawdad
related data/toolstools/collect/802.11/wrapi_plus