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Re: [ns] throughput in wireless networks



On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Thomas Schwabe wrote:

> 
> I use ns and the CMU wireless extension to run a few simulationen of
> Mobile IP. My problems is, the maximum throughput of the wireless
> channel is about 1.2 Mbit/s.  The wired connection supportes more then
> 10Mbit/s. I changed the bandwidth in the files ../tcl/lib/ns-default.tcl
> and ../wireless-phy.cc to 10Mbit/s. But it didn't help? How could I
> increase the maximum throughput?
> 

You can change the bandwidth in your simulation script without modifying
ns-default.tcl and wireless-phy.cc, since bandwidth_ is a bound variable.

If you are sending large number of packets, you can also try to increase
the ifq length for higher throughput.

Cheers,
Wei