[ns] Please, please, please, help me, I please you

2008-04-05 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear all, please help me on how to calculate both the RXThreshold and the CSThreshold when using the Ricean fading model for wireless simulation. Please, do not ignore my email and answer me, really I could not continue my work and I am stuck at this point where I do not know whether the

[ns] Please, help is needed on specifying the RXThreshold when using the Ricean fading model

2008-04-04 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear all, Please have anybody used the Ricean fading model in wireless simulation? is so, how you have calculated both the recieve threshold and the carrier sense threshold to determine the transmit range? is it correct to use the threshold.o utility in ns-2 with TwoRayGround as the propa

[ns] Please, help is needed on specifying the RXThreshold when using the Ricean fading model

2008-04-04 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear all, Please have anybody used the Ricean fading model in wireless simulation? is so, how you have calculated both the recieve threshold and the carrier sense threshold to determine the transmit range? is it correct to use the threshold.o utility in ns-2 with TwoRayGround as the propa

[ns] Rx Threshold calculation when using Ricean fading model

2008-04-03 Thread Gabrial Monty
Hi all, I have a simple question. I am running a scenarion consisting of a 5x5 grid of static nodes using AODV protocol. I am using Ricean fading model instead of the TwoRayGround. I have calculated the RxThreshold and the CSThresold using the threshold.o utility in ns-2 by setting the pr

[ns] An awk script to calculate throughput and end-to-end delay in wired-cum-wireless is needed

2008-03-28 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear ns users, I am facing a trouble in writing an awk script to calculate throughput in wired-cum-wireless scenarios, how can I deal with the wired trace to calculate the number of sent packets? can I count all cbr traffic in the lines that begin with '+'? I know that '+' stands for enqu

[ns] Agere ORINCO 802.11a User Guide

2008-03-14 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear all, From where I can get the "User's Guide for ORINCO PC Card" from Agere Syatems since I need the reciever sensiitvity of that card for 802.11a. I have searched the internet but I could not find the needed information. Any hint please? Best wishes, gaby --

[ns] Preample issue in 802.11a mac layer

2008-03-14 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear all, I want to simulate the detailed behavior of 802.11a mac layer where I want to consider the preample and the PLCP header when calculating the transmission time and the PER of a data packet. For the PLCP header it is specified in the standard its size and the data rate used to tra

[ns] Adding new metric to AODV

2008-02-27 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear all, I want to modify AODV to support new metric other than hop count, the new metric needs to save the weight of each link within the constucted route, How can I modify the format of RREQ/RREP to append the weight of each link within the route? please support me with any idea in you

Re: [ns] About wireless cards specifications simulation

2008-02-22 Thread Gabrial Monty
gaby Daniel Mahrenholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Gabrial Monty schrieb: > I have to simulate an infrastructured wireless network behavior using > different wireless cards specifications. I want to test the network > performance using 802.11a cards with high transmit power le

[ns] Realistic or not, your help is needed

2008-02-22 Thread Gabrial Monty
Hi, is realistic to assume that thw transmit power level is 400/500/600 mW with Tx range = 150m for 802.11a based networks? please I need answer for this question please help - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with

[ns] About wireless cards specifications simulation

2008-02-22 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear all, I have to simulate an infrastructured wireless network behavior using different wireless cards specifications. I want to test the network performance using 802.11a cards with high transmit power level (not less than 600 mW). I have choosen the XtremeRange5 card but what I have

[ns] How to set the transmission and interference range in ns-2

2007-10-26 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear all, We all know that to set the the interference and transmission range we use the follwing commands: Phy/WirelessPhy set CSThresh_ 3.1622777e-12 ;# Carrier Sensing threshold Phy/WirelessPhy set RXThresh_ 3.1622777e-11 ;# receiver signal threshold

[ns] Queues in ns-2

2007-10-08 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear ns-users, I want to make sure of the operation of interface queues in ns-2 (again forgive me for this stupid question). Does the interface queue of a node hold all the packets that arrive at the mac up to the routing layer and vice versa (i.e. the packets that arrive at the rou

[ns] Is there a method to idetify the ip address of the RTS sender and reciever at the mac layer?

2007-10-07 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear ns-users, forgive me for this stupid question, but as we know RTS and CTS packets are sent and recieved at the mac layer. So, no ip header is added to them. At the mac layer I want to record the number of sent RTS packets from a node to its neighbors, and I need the ip address of the

[ns] What is the role of EOTtarget_ and eotPacket_ attrobutes in mac_802_11 class in ns-2

2007-10-07 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear ns-users, I am tracing the code of the implementation of mac 802.11 in ns-2, I cannot explore what is the function of the following two varibales in the class and for what it is used: EOTtarget_ and eotPacket_ can anybody give some hints about this issue? Thanks in

Re: [ns] network wireless

2007-10-06 Thread Gabrial Monty
Hi, have a look at the ~/tcl/ex directory in your ns-2 main directory, there are many useful examples. Also, make a simple google search and it will return to you many examples of ns-2 scripts. Gaby "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, someone has tcl scripts in o

[ns] (urgent) Understand the structure of ns2 and the realtion between layers agents and the mobilenode class

2007-10-05 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear ns-users, I am trying to add some kind of communication between the layers of the protocol stack for the wireless communication stack (apply cross-layer based algorithms). When I have started working with ns2 my view about ns was as follows: ns create object instances from clas

[ns] Getting transmission data rate from the mac layer

2007-10-04 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear ns-users, I want to record the transmission rate of data packets at the sender. In other words, I know that I can extract the Tx rate from the recieved packet (from the common header) but I want to do that at the sender side. How can I do that? how can I get the used rate at the phys

[ns] About random mobility of wireless nodes

2007-09-29 Thread Gabrial Monty
Hi all, I am trying to simulate the an ad hoc network using the random mobility model for the wireless nodes. I have enabled the random motion as follows: $node_($i) random-motion 1 $node_($i) start It works and give me results (eagrding the aggregate throughput) but the mobi

[ns] R: Re: About random mobility of wireless nodes

2007-09-28 Thread Gabrial Monty
_ node- config -movementTrace ON > >Hope that helps. > >Claus > >Gabrial Monty wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am trying to simulate the an ad hoc network using the random mobility model for the wireless nodes. I have enabled the random motion as follows: >&

[ns] About random mobility of wireless nodes

2007-09-26 Thread Gabrial Monty
Hi all, I am trying to simulate the an ad hoc network using the random mobility model for the wireless nodes. I have enabled the random motion as follows: $node_($i) random-motion 1 $node_($i) start It works and give me results (eagrding the aggregate throughput) but the mobi

[ns] About Ricean Propagation Model and MW-node patch

2007-09-20 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear all, Hve anybody used the Ricean propagation model with mw-node patch? I have installed mw-node patch successfully but the problem is that I cannot use Ricean propagation model since under this pactch you configure the wireless-module not the node, So no 'propInstance_' variable that

[ns] Fwd: Problem with ns2 compilation

2007-09-19 Thread Gabrial Monty
Also, the .o files are not produced when I run make. - Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos.

[ns] Problem with ns2 compilation

2007-09-19 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear ns-users, I am using ns-2 2.31 under windows, there is no dynamic loading detected on my system, also static comilation is disabled on ns-2, when I edit the code of ns-2 I must reinstall it again (issue ./install in ns directory). If I just issue 'configure' then 'make' the new code

[ns] Static compilation is disabled in ns-2 2.31

2007-09-19 Thread Gabrial Monty
Dear ns users, I am new to ns2, I have installed ns-2 2.31 under windows xp SP 2 (using cygwin), during the installation the follwing was appeared on the screen while building tcl, tk, and ns-2.31: 'No explicit static compilation flag: setting V-STATIC to "" ' ... 'explicitly dis