[Ns-developers] HWMP realization in ns2

[Tom Henderson]

kirillano wrote:
> 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

Kirill and Andrey,

Sorry for the late reply.  There is a path for inclusion of new code 
into future ns-2 releases, but it involves posting code publicly for 
review, making the code available under a GPLv2-compatible license, and 
following commit guidelines outlined here in the "New modules" section:
http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Commit_Guidelines

Also, have you considered to try to contribute code to ns-3 
(http://www.nsnam.org), which is under more active development these days?

Regards,
Tom