[Click] IPMP / IP Measurement Protocol on click?

[Florian Sesser]

Hi all!

For my diploma thesis, I am analysing the performance of our MANET mesh 
algorithm - SSR / Scalable Source Routing [1] - on a physical 802.11a 
mesh network that is running Click (see BOWL [2]).

I plan to compare SSR to OLSR and DSR.

Now I need an underlay-agnostic measurement framework that will help me 
analyse the paths taken by packets on their way through the network, 
together with some performance statistics (read: timestamps).

I envision something like IPMP [3], which I see as a "ip record route" 
option on steroids.

I haven't found something looking complete enough implementation-wise 
for me to just use, with Click or without. In Click, all the primitives 
("stamp addr into packet payload", "stamp timestamp into packet 
payload", etc) are there, so hacking together rudimentary IPMP support 
should be very feasible. Still, I do not need to re-invent the wheel.

Now, do you guys know of something simpler / quicker / more complete / 
working? Or a better way of doing what I want? Would you be interested 
in an IPMP implementation for Click, or is that already in progress and 
I just didn't stumple over it?

Thank you!

Greetings from Munich,

Florian


[1] http://www.so.in.tum.de/wiki/index.php5/Scalable_Source_Routing
[2] http://bowl.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/
[3] i.e. http://www.wand.net.nz/~mluckie/pubs/mluckie-thesis.pdf
     (not the IPMP you find on wikipedia, which is about multipathing)