Re: CMU's extensions to ns-2 | Routing Protocols

[Nitin H Vaidya <vaidya@cs.tamu.edu>]

  >> On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Patrick Ngatchou wrote:
  >> 
  >> > Hello,
  >> > 
  >> > this message is addressed to those of you who used or are using the CMU's
  >> > extensions to ns-2;
  >> > 
  >> > I downloaded and built the "monarch-extended" ns-2, but I have trouble
  >> > running it: when I try one of my simulations (disigned fot the regular
  >> > ns), it works just the same, but when I try running the example given in
  >> > the accompanying documentation (the main script run.tcl with a routing
  >> > protocol, a communication pattern and a scenario file), I have a bus
  >> > error after 22 seconds of simulation.

I believe the CMU version (at least the one my student downloaded) does not run
on Sparcs - try running it on PCs (with FreeBSD, for instance).
Of course, you may have encountered a different problem ....

- nitin



  >> > 
  >> > On the other hand, in a paper entitled "A Performance Comparison of 
  >> > Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols" are given simulation
  >> > results of mobile ad-hoc networks with the following routing protocols:
  >> > AODV, DSDV, DSR and TORA;
  >> > The source code for DSDV and DSR is included in their release, but
  >> > there's nothing for TORA and AODV. 
  >> 
  >> you might want to report the bugs to the monarch mailing list at
  >> monarch@monarch.cs.cmu.edu 
  >> 
  >> > 
  >> > I know the mobility support from Sun and CMU are currently being 
  >> > integrated to the main ns release: can we have an idea of the new
  >> > features?
  >> 
  >> mobility features (combined from sun/cmu implementations) in ns would look
  >> very similar to the cmu version with aditional features from sun.
  >> 
  >> so the list would go somethng like the foll:
  >> 
  >> * wireless channel with radio propagation models (capture,hidden terminal
  >> interference, gain, modulation etc)
  >> * network interface controlling channel access
  >> * LL (with ARP) and MAC protocols
  >> * adhoc routing protocols (DSR,DSDV (cmu) and AODV(sun), and more in
  >>   future)
  >> * mobile IP implementation
  >> * mobilenodes with multiple channel access and having 3D trajectory
  >> * grid keeper - basically a central, node movement tracking tool
  >> 
  >> Hopefully I have covered them all,
  >> --Padma.
  >> 
  >> 
  >> > 
  >> > Thanks in advance for your cooperation, and best regards,
  >> > 
  >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  >> >  Patrick N. Ngatchou
  >> >  COMET Group, Columbia University Center for Telecommunication Research
  >> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  >> > 
  >> > 
  >> > 
  >> > 
  >> > 
  >> 
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