[ns] Bluetooth extension to ns-2.1b6

[kapurva@in.ibm.com]

Hi all,

We have recently open sourced BlueHoc, a Bluetooth extension to Network
simulator
(ver 2.1b6). An article on the simulator is available on
www.ibm.com/developerWorks.

The simulator can be downloaded from:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/bluehoc.
The documentation and instructions on installing and using BlueHoc are at:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/bluehoc.

The details on BlueHoc's features can be found on the above site. The key
issues
addressed by the simulator are:

                     Device Discovery performance of Bluetooth.
                     Connection Establishment and QoS negotiation.
                     Medium access control scheduling schemes.
                     Radio characteristics of Bluetooth system.
                     Statistical modeling of the indoor wireless channel.
                     Performance of TCP/IP based applications over
Bluetooth.

The following Bluetooth layers have been simulated:

                     Bluetooth radio.
                     Bluetooth baseband.
                     Link Manager Protocol.
                     Logical Link Control and Adapatation Protocol (L2CAP).
The distribution contains the Bluetooth modules and patches for ns-2.1b6.

Please report any installation problems on the site or directly by writing
to me.

Thanks,
APURVA
IBM India Research Lab.