NETWORK SIMULATOR 2

T S PRADEEP KUMAR url : http://www.pradeepkumar.org Email: tspembedded@gmail.com Social : http://www.facebook.com/tspradeep

OVERVIEW
Installation of NS2 Introduction to OTCL/C++ Recompiling NS2

Modification Adding

a new module

LINUX FOR NS2

Linux

Use of Linux is recommended

Fedora (10, 12)

If DVD Version- no need of additional package installation Install all the packages (if default installation selected, then additional packages have to be installed) Additional packages to be installed, there may be GCC Issues, xgraph and NAM issues Cent OS is the alternative for RHEL

Ubuntu (9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5)

Basic commands (ls, chmod, tar, rpm, make, gedit, vi, pwd, passwd, echo, cd, etc) Directory structure and shell prompt Path variables setting, Installation of packages and dependencies

INSTALLATION OF NS2
Download from http://isi.edu/nsnam/ns/nsbuild.html#allinone Copy the file under /home/pradeep (if your username is abcdef then home folder will be /home/abcdef) Extract it using tar zxvf ns-allinone-2.34.tar.gz cd ns-allinone-2.34 ./install (if any errors, please correct it) Setting of paths in .bash_profile or .bashrc

BASIC ARCHITECTURE OF NS2

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE OF NS2

OTCL VERSES C++

OTCL
Interpreted Hierarchy Faster to interpret, slow to run Preferable for beginners

C++
Used when dealing with a packet, agent or a protocol Compiled Hierarchy Slow to compile, faster to execute

The interface between OTCL and C++ is TclCL (available as a folder in ~ns-allinone-2.34/tclcl-xxx)

TCLCL

TCLCL Consists of Six main classes

Tcl

(Methods to access the interpreted hierarchy) InstVar (binds member variable in both hierarchies together TclObject (base class of all simulation objects) TclClass (maps class of IH to class of CH) TclCommand (global access to CH from IH) EmbeddedTcl (translates OTCL Script to C++ Code)

TCLCL
Each class have various member functions that are used to get compiled As a case study, lets start how to create a simple agent.

SIMPLE AGENT
class TSPAgent : public Agent { public: TSPAgent(); protected: int command(int argc, const char*const* argv); private: int tsp_var1; double tsp_var2; void TSPPrivFunc(void); };

SIMPLE AGENT
static class TSPAgentClass : public TclClass { public: TSPAgentClass() : TclClass("Agent/TSPAgentOtcl") {} TclObject* create(int, const char*const*) { return(new TSPAgent()); } } class_tsp_agent; TSPAgent::TSPAgent() : Agent(PT_UDP) { bind("tsp_var1_otcl", &tsp_var1); bind("tsp_var2_otcl", &tsp_var2); }

SIMPLE AGENT
int TSPAgent::command(int argc, const char*const* argv) { if(argc == 2) { if(strcmp(argv[1], "call-tsp-priv-func") == 0) { TSPPrivFunc(); return(TCL_OK); } } return(Agent::command(argc, argv)); }

SIMPLE AGENT
void TSPAgent::TSPPrivFunc(void) { Tcl& tcl = Tcl::instance(); tcl.eval("puts \"Message From TSPPrivFunc\""); tcl.evalf("puts \" tsp_var1 = %d\"", tsp_var1); tcl.evalf("puts \" tsp_var2 = %f\"", tsp_var2); }

SIMPLE AGENT TO TEST

#name it as .tcl file # Create TSPAgent set myagent [new Agent/TSPAgentOtcl] # Set configurable parameters of TSPAgent $myagent set tsp_var1_otcl 2 $myagent set tsp_var2_otcl 3.14 # Give a command to TSPAgent $myagent call-tsp-priv-fun

CASE STUDY 2 MULTIMEDIA OVER UDP

to build a multimedia application that runs over a UDP connection, five rate media scaling by changing encoding and transmission policy pairs associated with scale parameter values.

CASE STUDY 2 MULTIMEDIA OVER UDP

Based on 5 rate
0

0.3mb 1 0.6mb 2 0.9mb 3 1.2mb 4 1.5mb Packetsize 1000 Random false

CASE STUDY 2 MULTIMEDIA OVER UDP

When connection established, Sender/receiver agree on 5 different sets of encoding and transmission policy pairs. Sender sends with scale 0 but changes the transmission rates according to the value that the receiver notifies. The receiver is responsible for monitoring the network congestion and determine the scale factor. If congestion, then the receiver reduces the scale factor.

WHERE TO MODIFY

~ns-2.34 is the folder where all the cc modules are located

Topic Routing Protocol (AODV, DSDV, DSR) Mobile Node (Energy, Propagation, Antenna) TCP (Vegas, Reno, New Reno, etc) New packet, agent to be added Wireless Physical layer or MAC Layer modification Where to modify ~ns-2.34/aodv/aodv.cc, aodv_rtable.cc, etc ~ns-2.34/mobile/*.cc and *.h ~ns-2.34/tcp/ *.cc ~ns-2.34/common/packet.h, agent.h ~ns-2.34/mac/*.cc

WHERE TO MODIFY
Topic MPLS Adding a new Queue Adding a new application Sensors Examples (more than 100) Where to modify ~ns-2.34/mpls ~ns-2.34/queue/*.cc and *.h ~ns-2.34/apps/app.h ~ns-2.34/sensor-net (still to be developed) ~ns-2.34/tcl/ex/ What not lot more in NS2

THANK YOU!!!