Title :
Improving Emulation of Wireless Access Networks in ns-2
Author_Institution :
RWTH Aachen, Aachen
Abstract :
The network simulator ns-2 [1] provides mechanisms to route live network traffic through its simulation and thus emulate a network in real-time. However, it lacks certain core features for emulation networks with mobile terminals: roaming of terminals across base stations, and hence dynamic addressing of nodes. An infrastructure routing protocol (INFRA) is presented, as well as an additional tap network object and a tap-dyn agent that were required to unleash all capabilities of the new routing protocol.
Keywords :
mobile radio; radio access networks; routing protocols; additional tap network; emulation networks; infrastructure routing protocol; mobile terminals; network traffic routing; ns-2 network simulator; tap-dyn agent; wireless access networks; Application software; Base stations; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Emulation; Peer to peer computing; Routing protocols; Telecommunication traffic; Testing; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless and Mobile Communications, 2007. ICWMC '07. Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Guadeloupe
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2796-5
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7695-2796-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICWMC.2007.49
