Re: [ns] multicast support for wireless nodes

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

I get it. are you by any chance implying that i meant to say to use the same
multicast protocol for both wired and wireless. that was not my intention. i
meant that the folks at isi have implemented ODMRP, a multicast protocol for
ad hoc networks, on ns. So we can use that for multipcast in the wireless
domain. you would still have to use traditional protocols in the wired
domain and a combination of both in mixed scenarios. in fact, as part of our
class project we are implementing ODMRP and are almost done with it modulo
perfect validation.

-parveen.

> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Parveen Kumar Patel wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Harsh was asking about multicast support for wireless nodes.
>
> Enabling global multicast functionality by extending support for
> what's already there to include use on wireless nodes is not _quite_
> the same thing as getting a single instance of an ad-hoc-specific
> flooding protocol working for the wireless C++ code...
>
> imo.
>
> L.
>
> > 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.
>
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