[ns] Wireless simulations

[Venkatesh Ramarathinam]

Hi Morin,

I would attribute the discrepancy in the numbers to the packets that are
just sent almost at the end of simulation. These packets are in the air,
and are neither received nor dropped due to the stop of simulation. This
might be the case..... 

Venkatesh.......


On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Monique M. Morin wrote:

> 
> I just started doing wireless simulations also and in
> a VERY simple scenario (1 packet) the received
> packets and the dropped packets do NOT equal the
> sent packets.
> 
> I have the agent, router, and mac traces turned ON in
> the node config, so I shouldn't be missing any activities.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas why the numbers don't seem to
> add up?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- Monique
> 
> 
> 
> > > > 2. Do Packets received and packets dropped add up to
> > > > packets sent?
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, SHOULD BE.
> >
> > > I would think that this would be true. You could
> > > verify it by analyzing a trace file. Be careful about
> > > the levels of the traces though. Packets could be
> > > dropped at the RTR and/or MAC layers.
> > >
> > > >
> 
> 
>