[Ns-developers] Requesting help for the project

[Gustavo Carneiro]

2009/1/22 sivakumar chinnappayan <sivakumar.sona at gmail.com>

> Dear sir,
>  I have a plan to implement GUI for Ns-3( which is
>
> I have a plan to implement GUI for Ns-3( which is part of google soc
> 2008) as my final year project please provide more detail about the project
> which includes modules, tools ( gtk or any other).I can proceed with this
> projec if i get help from somebody of your group.
>
>
>
> Q1.I think of developing it in two ways.Please provide  me with right
> method.
>
>
>
> 1) In the front end i can simulate the network , using this in back end it
> should develop equivalent c++/python code for the above and we can run
> using
> 'waf'.
>
>
>
> 2) After designing the network,by clicking the run button objects have to
> be
> created dynamically and start simulating the network..
>
>
>
> Q2.The following are my views about these points. Please correct if any of
> my assumptions are wrong.
>
>
>
>  Physical connectivity layout and visualization,
>
> ( My view: Location of nodes,connectivity type,link parameters like
> speed,delay.....................)
>
> IP connectivity layout and visualization
>
> (My view:Using which we can assign IP address to the nodes )
>
> Mobility configuration and visualization,
>
> (My view:Parameters of mobile nodes such as speed, direction of
> movement.....................)
>
> Parameter configuration,
> Trace/instrumentation configuration
> Output analysis
> GUI developement
>
> (Please provide detailed view on the above three features)
>

That all looks fine, although sounds like a lot of work is ahead of you :-)

Before proceeding you should take a look at existing projects.  One is my
own gjc/ns-3-pyviz branch.  It has focus on real-time visualization of what
is going on with the simulation, but has nothing to do with building the
simulation script via GUI.  Also there is the iNSpect project, which is
initially for NS-2 but they were planning to support also NS-3.

Regards,

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert