[Ns-developers] initial 802.11n support merged

[Mirko Banchi]

Tom Henderson ha scritto:
> Mirko Banchi wrote:
>> Mathieu Lacage ha scritto:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> I have finally merged mirko's work in ns-3-dev to provide initial
>>> 802.11n MAC support to the ns-3 wifi models. Mirko: if you have commit
>>> powers to ns-3-dev, would you mind add an entry to the RELEASE_NOTES and
>>> to CHANGES.html to describe the wifi helper API changes you did ? If you
>>> don't have commit powers, let me know privately.
>>>
>>> To summarize, this has been quite a lot of work from Mirko who has gone
>>> through numerous code review iterations so, I wanted to thank him
>>> publicly for suffering so willingly :)
>>>
>>> Mathieu
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Oh..Great work!:)I think i should have commit powers as Tom told me
>> after creation of my account on code.nsnam.org. However if i haven't
>> them i 'll send you an email.
>>
> 
> Hi Mirko,
> I was wondering if you could also suggest some way that we can document
> (in an easy to find way) what your additions to the wifi models are.  I
> don't want future users to not be aware of these features.  Here are
> some places where it might make sense:
> 
> - more example scripts (is there code coverage in the existing example
> of all of your changes?)

I've created a script (examples/simple-wifi-frame-agregation.cc) that
shows how frame aggregation can work and how an Msdu aggregator can be
setted. About new Wifi Helpers, NqosWifiMacHelper and QosWifiMacHelper,
as you can see, their introduction involves changes to all wifi scripts
in examples dir. However shuold be right to explain their usage in
tutorial http://www.nsnam.org/docs/tutorial.html

> - the overall wifi model documentation:
> http://www.nsnam.org/doxygen/group___wifi.html

The above section is perfect for descriprion of the new three Mac high
models:

-ns3::QstaWifiMac
-ns3::QapWifiMac
-ns3::QadhocWifiMac

and for description of related objects like:

-ns3::EdcaTxopN

> - the manual chapter on wifi:
> http://www.nsnam.org/docs/manual/manual_66.html#SEC134

I think that new features about A-MSDU frame aggregation could be
explained in this section:
http://www.nsnam.org/docs/manual/manual_70.html#SEC144

As Mathieu adviced, i'm going to write most of API changes and to
explain new features in RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html files.


For now a known lack is the absence of an application ables to generate
traffic and to mark all packets using QosTag.


Regards,
Mirko

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