[Ns-developers] Request to merge the timob wifiex project into main ns-3 repo

[Tom Henderson]

Timo Bingmann wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> thanks for "waking me up" :). No really, I was absent from this whole world, 
> including reality, for the last few months due to an exam, which I finally 
> finished just last week.
> 
> I am going to work on merging some of my code into the mainstream. However, 
> I'm definitely desynched from current development, as is my repo.
> 
> I believe the feature most people are interested in is the frame capture. 
> This, I believe, I have no not integrated into the YansWifiPhy yet, because it 
> is conceptually incompatible.
> 
> Nevertheless, I believe we can still combine the models by adding a capture 
> threshold separate from the PER calculations. Practical simulations will 
> benefit from this approach.

Timo,
Can you elaborate a bit on the above?  Why do you think it is 
conceptually incompatible to merge these models?  Are there further 
extensions planned that would make it incompatible?

- Tom