[ns] porting a contributed module to ns-2.27

[Martin Jacobsson]

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 19:19, johnoliver at utvinternet.com wrote:
> I'm going to have a go at porting Blueware to ns-2.27. 
> Blueware 1.0 is a Bluetooth simulator for Ns-2. It is an extension/rewrite of
> IBM's opensourced Bluehoc.
> 
> Has anybody else thought about doing this? Can anybody forsee any particular
> problems or recognise any inherent obstacles caused by the revisions from ns-2.1b7a.

I have actually done the exercise to make blueware + ns2.1b9 to compile with a modern
gcc compiler. There are some problems with namespaces and deprecated STL
data-structures. But even when I fixed them, and it all compiled I couldn't get it
to run. It took me too much time to fix, so I decided to cancel.

> I admit I haven't done much research yet, but I hope to catch up soon.

Are you aware of UCBT from Qihe Wang?
Maybe UCBT supports the Bluetooth functionality you are looking for and
if so, you won't need to port Blueware to ns2.27. UCBT can be found
here: http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~qwang/  But on the other hand, I believe
UCBT is in an early development phase, which might mean other problems.
So far, I have not tried UCBT.

Regards,
Martin.
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Martin Jacobsson <m.jacobsson at ewi.tudelft.nl>