Re: [ns] wireless networking

[John Mehringer <mehringe@ISI.EDU>]

"Laurent Cavallin (Stagiaire 2001)" wrote:
> 
> John Heidemann wrote:
> >
> > >...
> > >> 2/ which version of NAM is the best to see wireless
> > >> simulation results ?
> > >
> > >NAM doesn't yet give graphical representation of
> > >wireless simulations.
> > >...
> >
> > This isn't true; nam now supports wireless.
> > (For example, there was another ns-user who was wondering what those
> > expanding rings were... they're broadcast wireless packets.)
> 
> i tried nam 1.0a8, 1.0a9 and 1.0a10 and it never work
> i have the following message on my stderr:
>         You are using the tracefile format older than 1.0a5
>         which will not allow you to run namgraph

nam 1.0a10 does support wireless networking.  It can show node movement,
packet broadcasts and packet transmissions.  nam1.0a9 had some problems
with visualization of wireless networks.  What operating system are you
runnning under?  Are using the latest release of ns and nam?  Do you see
anything when you run nam-1.0a10 with your tracefile?

- John Mehringer