[Ns-developers] Announcement of NS-2 802.11Ext

[Tom Henderson]

Felix Schmidt-Eisenlohr wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> a new version of our extension to the NS-2 wireless modules formerly
> known as "Overhaul of IEEE 802.11 modeling and simulation architecture
> in NS-2", now named "NS-2-802.11Ext", is available for download and
> testing on our website:
> 
> http://dsn.tm.uni-karlsruhe.de/english/Overhaul_NS-2.php
> 
> As it is planned to integrate this extension into NS-2 we kindly ask
> anyone interested to apply the patch, run some tests and give feedback
> in order to eliminate bugs, inaccuracies or unclear documentation
> issues.

Felix and all, thanks for contributing this new 802.11 stack.

This is the last contribution pending for the previously posted plans 
for ns-2.33 release:  http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Roadmap

We've already integrated David Wei's work, and the dynamic libraries and 
802.11 infrastructure patches have been announced for several weeks now.

The 802.11Ext patch has been posted before (earlier version), and has 
undergone some off-list review and debugging over at least the past half 
year, and the contributors have agreed to support it.  Therefore, I'd 
like to suggest that we plan to take comments for the next two weeks on 
this revised patch, and barring any problems, merge it after that time. 
  Meanwhile, I'll work on marshaling in the 802.11 infrastructure and 
dynamic libraries patches since those seem ready and since they are not 
drawing any further comments.

This would mean that we'd be ready for another ns-2 release around the 
end of the month.

Any comments or concerns about these plans?

Tom