The Talon Tools project consolidates a set of software tools for practical research with commodity IEEE 802.11ad devices. It bases on TP-Link's Talon AD7200, which is the first wireless router that supports the IEEE 802.11ad standard and was released in 2016. Using this platform allows to investigate various aspects of 60 GHz millimeter-wave communication in realistic on-site experiments. With our framework, we support various kinds of experiments and evaluations performed with multiple routers in arbitrary environments.

• lede-ad7200: LEDE environment ported to support TP-Link TALON AD7200 devices.
• nexmon-arc: The nexmon C-based firmware patching framework adapted for the ARC architecture.
• sector-patterns: Measured Antenna Sector Pattern from our CoNEXT 2017 paper.

Please follow our getting started tutorial to establish your first wireless gigabit link. For individual documentations, consider the involved projects directly: For example, you can build your own LEDE image with lede-ad7200 and create custom patches for the wireless chip with nexmon-arc. If you just want to use our antenna patterns in your evalations, check out the sector-patterns repository.

This software might damage your hardware and may void your hardware’s warranty. Use our tools at your risk and responsibility.

• LEDE: The “Linux Embedded Development Environment” is a Linux operating system based on OpenWrt.
• Nexmon: The C-based Firmware Patching Framework for Broadcom/Cypress WiFi Chips.

• Daniel Steinmetzer, Daniel Wegemer, Matthias Schulz, Joerg Widmer, Matthias Hollick. Compressive Millimeter-Wave Sector Selection in Off-the-Shelf IEEE 802.11ad Devices. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2017), December 2017, Seoul/Incheon, South Korea.

• Daniel Steinmetzer, Adrian Loch, Amanda García-García, Joerg Widmer, Matthias Hollick. Mitigating Lateral Interference: Adaptive Beam Switching for Robust Millimeter-Wave Networks. 1st ACM Workshop on Millimeter Wave Networks and Sensing Systems (mmNets 2017), October 2017, Snowbird, Utah, USA.

  Get references as bibtex file

Any use of the Software which results in an academic publication or other publication which includes a bibliography must include citations to the Talon Tools project and probably one of our papers depending on the code you use. Find all references in our bibtex file. The project should be cited as follows:

@electronic{talon-tools:project,
	author = {Steinmetzer, Daniel and Wegemer, Daniel and Hollick, Matthias},
	title = {Talon Tools: The Framework for Practical IEEE 802.11ad Research},
	url = {https://seemoo.de/talon-tools/},
	year = {2017}
}

We want to learn how people use our platform and what aspects we might improve. Please report any issues or comments using the bug-tracker and do not hesitate to approach us via e-mail.

• Daniel Steinmetzer <[email protected]>
• Daniel Wegemer <[email protected]>