[Ns-developers] athstats in ns3

[Nicola Baldo]

Hi all,

I am working on the implementation of a trace sink for wifi events that 
is intended to produce the same output that can be obtained on from 
atheros devices using madwifi's athstats tool.

The current status is that the AthstatsWifiTraceSink is working and 
provides most of the MAC-layer metrics produced by athstats (support for 
PHY layer events will be necessarily limited, since most of these events 
are currently not modeled in YansWifiPhy).

I am asking for this code to be reviewed for inclusion in ns-3-dev. The 
code is divided into two parts:

1) a new set of traces that I added to WifiMac in order to notify when a 
RTS or DATA frames is to be retransmitted as well as when a frame is 
dropped due to exceeded retry limit:
http://codereview.appspot.com/91098

2) the implementation of AthstatsWifiTraceSink and its associated helper:
http://codereview.appspot.com/88151

feedback welcome!

Nicola