[Ns-developers] NS-3 Click MAC

[Lalith Suresh]

Hello all,

As promised, I'll be working on the ns-3-click-mac project, which aims to
allow Click to handle the MAC high functionality of an ns-3 node. This would
be a better framework for Click users. The objective now would be to receive
a packet going down the stack from Click, and pass it directly down to the
corresponding part of the MAC layer. As of now, ns-3-click receives all
packets from Click at L3, strips off the ethernet header, and passes the
packet down to L2.

I did have a go at it earlier, and seemed like this was rather easy to do
with Csma devices, but not with Wifi devices (you can find my quick attempt
at [0], and yes, the Wifi part is sloppy). The main problem I found in
dealing with the Wifi code is directly related to Bug 978 [1].

I'm looking for suggestions on how to proceed from this point. One option
would be to write another Mac High model, but that isn't going to help as
far as dealing with Bug 978 is concerned. The easier alternative, of course,
would be to wait until the bug gets fixed. :)

[0] http://code.nsnam.org/lalith/ns-3-click-mac
<http://code.nsnam.org/lalith/ns-3-click-mac>[1]
http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=978

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Lalith Suresh
*Department of Computer Science and Engineering*
*Instituto Superior Técnico*
www.lalith.in