[Ns-developers] NS-3 Wifi contributions

[Federico Maguolo]

Hi Mathieu

On Saturday 15 March 2008 04:38, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> hi federico,
>
> Now that ns-3-param has been merged into ns-3-dev, I have looked again
> at your Jakes and Composite propagation loss models. The patches look
> nice but before being integrated, they would need to be updated to the
> new API in ns-3-dev: do you think you could produce a new patch ?

An updated patch for jakes and composite propagation loss models is ready at

http://www.dei.unipd.it/wdyn/index.php?IDsezione=5517

>
> Another thing I was wondering about is whether we could rename
> PropagationLossModel::GetRxPower (double,Ptr<MobilityModel> a,
> Ptr<MobilityModel> b) to PropagationLossModel::GetLoss (
> Ptr<MobilityModel> a, Ptr<MobilityModel> b) ? The latter would more
> closely match the behavior of PropagationDelayModel which returns the
> 'delay' rather than the time of expiration but I wonder if it would be
> enough to express the semantics of a sufficient number of propagation
> loss models. What do you think ?

Yes, the propagation loss is a coefficient which is independent from the 
transmit power, thus I think you can change the interface as you suggest.

Federico