[Ns-developers] [patch] beacon frame in mac 802.11

[Matteo Rosi]

Hi,
we are working on ns-2.29 and we have produced a patch for automatic
sending of beacon frame every second inside mac 802.11 layer.
Using isAp parameter we can create a wireless node with access point
behavior. As an example:

$ns node-config -isAp ON

This triggers the capability of sending beacon frames.
Right now beacon are unformatted empty packets but we plant to give them
 a more structured form in the future.

patch is attached. In result code we marked our changes with tag
"//ModLart", you can easily delete it after applying the patch.

We tried to understand the MAC layer code as much as we could, but more
experienced developers might review it.

Bye,
-- 
	Matteo Rosi, Leonardo Maccari,
			Telecommunication Network Lab,
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence
			http://lart.det.unifi.it/
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