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

[Jahanzeb Farooq]

Missed to include the address of the mailing list in my previous reply
(below).

-
Jahanzeb


                              From: 
Jahanzeb Farooq
<jahanzeb.farooq at sophia.inria.fr>
                                To: 
Erlon Cruz <sombrafam at gmail.com>
                           Subject: 
Re: [Ns-developers] Preliminary
release of NS-3 WiMAX module
                              Date: 
Fri, 30 May 2008 10:30:10 +0200


Hi Erlon,
No, not yet. The primary objective for now is to fully implement the PMP
mode. Mesh mode is currently in the list of future works.



Regards



On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 19:45 -0300, Erlon Cruz wrote:
> 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
>         
>         
>