Hi,
I'm new to the mailing list and greetings to everyone!

I'm trying to simulate and observe the performance of TCP on a Wimax
network with the Wimax Forum's NS-2 simulator. (I think) I have been
able to successfully compile the 2.6 release of the Wimax Forum's
simulator (with NS-2.31) and I've tried running the test-be-arq.tcl
script which is basically a scenario with UDP CBR traffic. I've been
able to observe received CBR messages by the traffic destination node
(with diuc=1, seed=1, direction=ul and distance=300).

Apart from trying lots of other things, I have replaced the Agent/UDP
and Agent/Null definitions in test-be-arq.tcl with Agent/TCP and
Agent/TCPSink definitions. When I execute the modified scenario, no
CBR messages seem to be delivered. Neither of the following two
commands report any delivered packets:

grep ^r out_mod_1.res | grep -c "1 0 cbr"
or
grep ^r out_mod_1.res |grep "\-Nl AGT"

When I examine the packet trace file, I see that the very first IP
datagram gets dropped with reason "-Nl IFQ -Nw ARP". Then an ARP
REQUEST/REPLY exhange occurs and for the rest of the TCP packets, the
following pattern is observed:

s -t 19.000000000 -Hs 2 -Hd -2 -Ni 2 -Nx 360.00 -Ny 50.00 -Nz 0.00 -Ne
-1.000000 -Nl AGT -Nw --- -Ma 0 -Md 0 -Ms 0 -Mt 0 -Is 4194305.0 -Id
0.0 -It tcp -Il 40 -If 0 -Ii 2 -Iv 32 -Pn tcp -Ps 0 -Pa 0 -Pf 0 -Po 0
r -t 19.000000000 -Hs 2 -Hd -2 -Ni 2 -Nx 360.00 -Ny 50.00 -Nz 0.00 -Ne
-1.000000 -Nl RTR -Nw --- -Ma 0 -Md 0 -Ms 0 -Mt 0 -Is 4194305.0 -Id
0.0 -It tcp -Il 40 -If 0 -Ii 2 -Iv 32 -Pn tcp -Ps 0 -Pa 0 -Pf 0 -Po 0
f -t 19.000000000 -Hs 2 -Hd 4194304 -Ni 2 -Nx 360.00 -Ny 50.00 -Nz
0.00 -Ne -1.000000 -Nl RTR -Nw --- -Ma 0 -Md 0 -Ms 0 -Mt 0 -Is
4194305.0 -Id 0.0 -It tcp -Il 60 -If 0 -Ii 2 -Iv 32 -Pn tcp -Ps 0 -Pa
0 -Pf 0 -Po 0

What's the correct way of simulating TCP on the Wimax Forum system
level simulator? Where can I find example scripts for achieving this
goal?

Any comments would really be appreciated. Thanks in advance,

Alper

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