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

[Erlon Cruz]

Hi Thierry and Jahanzeb,

Some time ago I saw a documentation from Jahanzeb reporting the working plan
on buildind ns3 WIMAX module. The project duration, was around  8 moths (I
don't remember well). Do you thing build  the NS-3 WimAX mesh module should
take the same time, or there is somethig already built on PMP module that
can abreviate this duration?

Regards



On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Thierry Turletti <
Thierry.Turletti at sophia.inria.fr> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>