Re: [ns] multicast support for wireless nodes

[Parveen Kumar Patel <ppatel@cs.utah.edu>]

Hi,

I don't entirely agree with this. I know of at least one multicast
implementation that has been there for a while and would be made public in
a few days. and I personally (although i may be wrong) don't think its
that big a task, because you don't need all that wired multicast
code to implement wireless multicast. Contact the authors of 

"Flooding for reliable multicast in multi-hop ad hoc networks"

@isi. They have implemented multicast and have promised to make the code
public. 

hth,
-parveen.

 On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Lloyd Wood wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Harsh Shah wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to implement multicast support for wireless nodes in
> > ns-2. Has anyone already done this? Anyone have any idea which files are
> > needed to be changed in order to implement this support.
> 
> Pretty much everything.
> 
> The multicast routing code is in Tcl, the wireless stuff in in C++,
> and they're entirely separate (different authors, origins - the
> works). You could try implementing Tcl callbacks in the wireless code
> as a first step to getting Tcl routing functionality working over
> wireless... but better men than me have thought twice about beginning
> such a large effort.
> 
> L.
> 
> <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
> 
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