Re: Simulating cellular networks in ns

[Ya Xu <yaxu@ISI.EDU>]

Current ns snapshot supports basestation and wireless mix mode. See
ns-2/tcl/test/test-suite-mixmode.tcl

-Ya

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Brett Vickers wrote:

> I would like to run some simulations of a cellular network using ns-2, but
> even the latest snapshot (2.1b6, as of today) doesn't seem to support such
> networks.  All of the wireless code seems to assume a mobile ad-hoc network
> running DSR or DSDV.  This is inappropriate for my purposes because I only
> want mobile hosts routing packets through base stations; I don't want them
> routing through each other.  I'm hoping that maybe I've missed something,
> and that code for fixed-infrastructure cellular networks *does* exist in
> ns-2.  But if it doesn't, has anyone hacked the code to address cellular
> networks?
> 
> (By the way, the mobile IP code -- pre-2.1b6 -- isn't very helpful in this
> regard either, because it doesn't address the MAC sublayer, and it requires
> the establishment of a broadcast link between each possible pair of mobile
> hosts and base stations.  The post-2.1b5 mobile IP code is equally unhelpful
> because it is built on top of the CMU code and therefore allows mobile hosts
> to use ad-hoc routing.  Or at least it seems that way to me.)
> 
> -BV
> 
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