[Ns-developers] Underwater acoustic module for NS-3

[Leonard Tracy]

Hi all,

I have begun work on developing a module to enable simulation of underwater
acoustic networks in NS3.  This work is still early in the development
cycle, however, I am hoping to solicit code reviews and/or suggestions for
design improvement.  The freehg repository is avilable at

http://freehg.org/u/ltracy/ns3-uan

My ultimate goal is to develop a general framework that can be used to model
a variety of different underwater scenarios (e.g. research new MAC layers
with various underlying PHY/channel models).  To this end, I've followed the
design model of the wifi module included in current NS3 releases (with some
pointers from Mathieu) with some modifications to account for the difference
in intended purpose.  So far I've developed simple examples for that
exemplify the interplay between the channel, propagation and noise models,
and the MAC and PHY layers.  I think all of these work, although I have not
done much testing.

I'm hoping for inclusion into the main NS3 dev branch at some point,
possibly as soon as ns-3.4.  Thanks in advance for any comments.

Leonard Tracy