[ns] :help on interpretation of wireless trace file

Mubashir Rehmani mshrehmani at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 06:15:05 PDT 2008


Hello

"s" and "r" indicates that you send and receive the packets respectively.
RTR means network layer and AGT means application layer.

Here is the full description of trace format:

To find the interpretation of all possible trace format when you do the
wireless simulation, you'd better read the code of ns2 in file
*ns2home/trace/cmu-trace{.h,
.cc}* Mostly, the format would be as

ACTION:	[s|r|D]: s -- sent, r -- received, D -- dropped
WHEN:	the time when the action happened
WHERE:	the node where the action happened
LAYER:	AGT -- application,
	RTR -- routing,
	LL  -- link layer (ARP is done here)
	IFQ -- outgoing packet queue (between link and mac layer)
	MAC -- mac,
	PHY -- physical
flags:
SEQNO:	the sequence number of the packet
TYPE:	the packet type
		cbr -- CBR data stream packet
		DSR -- DSR routing packet (control packet generated by routing)
		RTS -- RTS packet generated by MAC 802.11
		ARP -- link layer ARP packet
SIZE:	the size of packet at current layer, when packet goes down, size
increases, goes up size decreases
[a b c d]:	a -- the packet duration in mac layer header
		b -- the mac address of destination
		c -- the mac address of source
		d -- the mac type of the packet body
flags:
[......]:	[
		source node ip : port_number
		destination node ip (-1 means broadcast) : port_number
		ip header ttl
		ip of next hop (0 means node 0 or broadcast)
		]


Mubashir Husain Rehmani


2008/8/21 Srirupa Dasgupta <srirupadasgupta at rediffmail.com>

>
>  Dear ns-users,
> can some one help me to interpret a wireless trace format like:
> s 1.000000000 _0_ AGT  --- 0 pong 128 [0.00 0 0] ------- [0:0 -1:0 32 0]
> r 1.000000000 _0_ RTR  --- 0 pong 128 [0.00 0 0] ------- [0:0 -1:0 32 0]
> s 1.000000000 _0_ RTR  --- 0 pong 128 [0.00 0 0] ------- [0:0 -1:0 32 0]
> s 1.000000000 _1_ AGT  --- 1 pong 128 [0.00 0 0] ------- [1:0 -1:0 32 0]
> what is AGT what is RTR ..how will I know that my packet has been accepted
>  from the above trace..
> Regard Srirupa
>
>
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> >Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:26:54 +0300
> > From: "amj ns2" <amjedns2 at gmail.com>
> >Subject: [ns] Implemtation of switch contribute
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> >Date: Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:13 PM
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> >I have implemented  Switch In NS2 from some reference about how to fabric
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> >and then I implemented in ns2-31 i want contribute of my code of switch .
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> >Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:01:48 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: Nour <ghali_noura at yahoo.fr>
> >Subject: [ns] installation problem (.\install) [resent]
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> >Envoy? le : Mercredi, 20 Ao?t 2008, 9h33mn 07s
> >Objet : installation problem (.\install)
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> >I tried to install NS [version 2.28] under windows. I followed all the
> instructions of how to install cygwin and how to extract NS files to a
> directory reachable from Cygwin.
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> >But when i write the command " .\install" in the shell, this message
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> >Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:20:38 +0530
> > From: "xing y" <xingy2001 at gmail.com>
> >Subject: [ns] General Procedure for static build??
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> >Subject: General Procedure for static build??
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> >Hi
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> >I am looking for a standard procedure for making a static ns build so that
> i
> >can run the ns on any
> >other linux machine with same configuration without installing the
> >ns-allinone.
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> >I tried configure --enable-static and changing STATIC flag in Makefile.
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> >Please suggest a standard way of doing it.
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> >Thanks
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> >Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:27:31 +0200
> > From: "Mats Folke" <mats.folke at ericsson.com>
> >Subject: Re: [ns] installation problem (.\install) [resent]
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> >Hi!
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> >Try "./install" not ".\install".
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> > > Envoy? le : Mercredi, 20 Ao?t 2008, 9h33mn 07s
> > > Objet : installation problem (.\install)
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello Everyone
> > >
> > > I tried to install NS [version 2.28] under windows. I followed all
> > > the instructions of how to install cygwin and how to extract NS files
> > > to a directory reachable from Cygwin.
> > >
> > > But when i write the command " .\install" in the shell, this message
> > > appears : " no such file or directory "
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> >Message: 5
> >Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:35:39 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: reza mohammadi <reza_mo1384 at yahoo.com>
> >Subject: [ns] how i can adjust specific node address in wireless mac
> >To: ns-users at ISI.EDU
> >Message-ID: <860579.87219.qm at web33405.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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> >hello
> >i design new mac protocol and i implement in wireless topology
> >but in first packet sennding (RTS) destination address is -1 and -1
> is=A0br=
> >oadcast mac address. how i can send packet to specific node=20
> >my output is shown below
> >my simulation time is =A05=A0 minutes=A0 but in first packet sending below
> =
> >result occure
> >any body can help me?
> >best regards
> >hdr_src,,,,,,,,,,,,,src=0
> >hdr_type
> >hdr_dst ,,,,,,,,,, dts=-1
> >hdr_src,,,,,,,,,,,,,src=0
> >hdr_type
> >hdr_dst ,,,,,,,,,, dts=-1
> >ns: finish: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server
> shutdown).
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >Message: 6
> >Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:56:52 +0200
> > From: "Maurizio Bellemo" <maurizio.bellemo at gmail.com>
> >Subject: [ns] Implementing a New Manet Unicast Routing Protocol in NS2
> >To: ns-users at ISI.EDU
> >Message-ID:
> >       <7f432a2f0808200956w32b41859i1619abbc218f22eb at mail.gmail.com>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm trying to simulate a MANET in order to test an efficient flooding
> >technique (broadcast). I took the code in this article, without using the
> >routing part, because I don't need. I want only to flood the network with
> >control information. I wrote a little simulation to test the algorithm.
> Two
> >nodes flooding packets. The problem is I get a segmentation fault and I
> >don't know why.
> >I attach the simulation file and the algorithm of the article changed.
> >
> >Thank you a lot
> >Best Regards
> >Maurizio
> >
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 7
> >Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:13:40 +0530
> > From: " ????? " <mandarchoure at gmail.com>
> >Subject: [ns] Code for link level recovery of Base Station
> >To: ns-users at ISI.EDU
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> >       <e40e86ea0808201043q2b4ff208o833fc2f01301a2e3 at mail.gmail.com>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >
> >Dear ns users,
> >
> >I am working on wired-cum-wireless scenario.
> >In this i have to do link level recovery when packet is dropped between
> base
> >station and wireless node.
> >So, Please help me in this regard and send me the code for link level
> >recovery for base station. and tell me in which file the code is there for
> >base station in NS-2.29.
> >I am very much thankful to you.
> >
> >Thanking You,
> >
> >Regards
> >Mandar.
> >
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