Modeling computation in nodes (again...I'm sorry)

[Michael Schmitt <schmittm@cs.ucsb.edu>]

Sorry, about being persistent here with this question. Any kind of
feedback would help me very much though since I have to decide pretty
soon if we modify ns for our project or hack a tailor-made
'communication+computation' simulator for our purposes from scratch.

Thanks,
Michael

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Hi everybody,


I would like to extend the functionality of ns in respect to modeling
the interleaving of computation and communication.

I read the documentation and am fairly certain that what I need to do is
adding queues and busy flags to the Node (before classifier to
model demux overhead), Agent (to model protocol overhead) and
Application (to model application/service-specific computation).

Additionally I would need to extend the trace/monitor capabilities to
observe these added queues and flags, I think.

Could you please give me feedback if that sounds like a feasible
approach and/or if I forgot something which needs to be done too to
extend ns in that way. Also, if you have any code or know some pointers
to code that models computation in ns, I would be very grateful too.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Michael

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