[Ns-developers] HWMP for ns-2 is published

[Gustavo Carneiro]

Hi,

This sounds interesting, but are there plans to support NS-3 as well? :-)

Thanks.


2008/7/30 kirillano <kirillano at yandex.ru>

> Hi!
>
> We are the team of developers from Wireless Software Research & Development
> Group of Institute of Information Transmission Problems of the Russian
> Academy of Sciences.
>
> We are going to make a complete model for wireless mesh networking.
> At this moment we have made a basic realization of Hybrid Wireless mesh
> protocol (HWMP) in accordance with standard IEEE802.11s Draft 1.07 released
> in September 2007.
> We would like you to look at our changes and give us your opinion about
> them. (and hopefully, add our code to the main ns2 distribution)
>
> Now our HWMP model does not implement the following things yet:
> 1. We have not implemented peer-link management and PERR messages (because
> link failure appears in peer-link management only).
> 2. We have not implemented multiple-destination path requests.
> 3. We have not written a validate tests and documentation. (though the code
> has many comments and some references to the 802.11s draft; and the code has
> been tested in some static topologies)
> All this features we are going to implement in the nearest future, and we
> will follow all changes in IEEE802.11s.
>
> The source code of HWMP is published at
> http://hippo.mipt.ru/hwmp/
>
> Best regards.
> Kirill V. Andreev,
> Andrey I. Mazofuture
>



-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert