[Ns-developers] HWMP realization in ns2

[kirillano]

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 can be sent to you with all available documentation and tests as soon as you request.

Best regards.
Kirill V. Andreev,
Andrey I. Mazo