[Ns-developers] Preliminary release of NS-3 WiMAX module

[Thierry Turletti]

Hi Erlon

Unfortunately, it is not in our to-do list but if you are interested in, 
you are very welcome to contribute.

Regards,

Thierry

Erlon Cruz a écrit :
> Hi Jahanzeb,
>
> Is there any perspective in to support mesh mode??
>
> Best Regards
>
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Jahanzeb Farooq <
> jahanzeb.farooq at sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>> It's been a while being a silent member of the mailing list. I hereby
>> announce the preliminary release (version 0.9.0 ??) of the WiMAX module
>> for NS-3. The module currently implements the fundamental
>> functionalities of the WiMAX standard. Following is a brief outline of
>> the functionalities implemented:
>>
>> - Generation of the MAC frames (in TDD mode) and construction and
>> transmission of the key MAC management messages (namely DL-MAP, UL-MAP,
>> DCD, UCD, RNG-REQ and RNG-RSP).
>>
>> - Creation of the burst profiles, the specific MAC layer data
>> structures which define the PHY specific parameters to be used for
>> receiving and transmitting.
>>
>> - Network entry and initialization procedure. It includes the scanning
>> process where the SS (subscriber station) scans for the suitable channel
>> and the initial ranging process where the SS performs a handshake with
>> the BS (base station) and exchanges the set of parameters to be used in
>> the network.
>>
>> - Creation and assignment of management and transport connections. Since
>> scheduling services are not yet implemented, currently only one
>> transport connection per SS is supported.
>>
>> - Uplink scheduler at the BS, responsible of assigning bandwidth/uplink
>> allocations to SSs. Note that the uplink scheduler currently does not
>> take into account bandwidth requests since the bandwidth management
>> mechanism is yet to be implemented.
>>
>> - Simplified versions of FCFS based outbound schedulers at BS and SS.
>>
>> - Two different versions of the PHY layer: a basic PHY which simply
>> forwards bursts ignoring any underlying PHY layer details, and a more
>> complete OFDM PHY layer developed at LIP6, France, as per the WiMAX OFDM
>> PHY specification. However note that OFDM PHY only uses a simplistic
>> AWGN channel and no propagation/error model is currently implemented.
>>
>> - Simplified versions of burst profile manager and classifier. The burst
>> profile manager implements the functions of creation and assignment of
>> burst profiles. The classifier maps the incoming traffic to the
>> connections based on the destination address.
>>
>> - The WiMAX Helper and tracing APIs.
>>
>> The module has only recently entered into its advanced development
>> phase. Some of the major features yet to be implemented are scheduling
>> services, service flow management and bandwidth management.
>>
>> For a more detailed version of the above summary please refer to the
>> README file under src/devices/wimax/
>>
>> The code is currently located at the link below:
>> http://yans.inria.fr/code/ns-3-wimax/
>>
>>
>> Any comments or code reviews are welcomed.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jahanzeb Farooq
>>
>>
>>
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