Re: [ns] packet in queue waiting time - wireless senario

[Andrew Tang <atang@cse.unsw.EDU.AU>]

No it isn't, I'm faily certain it's accurate becuase this trace used a
tdma based protocol using a slot time of 0.006 with a frame time of 33
slots. 

Thanks,
Andrew 

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Ya Xu wrote:

> In general. Yes.
> 
> The 0.2s waiting time looks too long.
> 
> Was the time spent on ARP-like lookup ?
> 
> -Ya
> 
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Andrew Tang wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to analyse the time spent in a queue for a wireless node.
> > 
> > What I am hoping to do is to find the average "packet delay" to compare
> > several
> > Wireless MAC protocls, namely CDMA/CA, TDMA and several that I have have
> > modified. Is it safe to assume the time take for a packet from the agent
> > to reach the mac layer is the approximate time spent in the queue e.g
> > 
> > from a regular trace file
> > 
> > s 5.019047619 _1_ AGT  --- 33 cbr 1000 [0 0 0 0] 
> > s 5.202000000 _1_ MAC  --- 33 cbr 1072 [5 0 1 800]
> > 
> > or is there a more correct alternative, without needing to modify the
> > source. 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew
> > 
>