[Click] Click support in ns-3

[Eddie Kohler]

Hi Lalith,

I encourage you to add a link to this paper to the Click site.
http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/click/publications
Thanks!

Eddie


On 05/30/2011 01:57 AM, Lalith Suresh wrote:
> Hello Bart,
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Bart Braem<bart.braem at ua.ac.be>  wrote:
>> Dear Ruben,
>>
>> That's great news, thanks a lot for the effort invested in this!
>> We developed and maintained the old nsclick patches, so out of interest we are wondering if the similarities between the old and the new ns are large?
>
> Yes, the differences between the two simulators are quite large. NS-3
> has been written from scratch in C++, and closely follows real world
> network stacks and models.
>
>> Did you read the work of my colleagues in<http://www.pats.ua.ac.be/nicolas.letor#p138>? Will madwifi-like functionality be available in nsclick-3?
>>
>
> We are aware of your work on the Madwifi wireless extension for
> nsclick. In ns-3-click, we leave Click to handle all of ns-3's layer 3
> functionality, and we've implemented it in a way that all kinds of
> traffic generators from ns-3 can run on top of Click, and all ns-3
> NetDevice models can run below Click. This includes the wifi netdevice
> as well (see example script src/click/examples/nsclick-raw-wlan.cc in
> ns-3.11 or ns-3-dev).
>
> Like Ruben has mentioned above, the only limitation right now is that
> we can't use Click elements (like the Wifi elements) that rely on
> radiotap headers yet, but we're mentoring a student project to get
> this done over the summer.
>
> We've described the whole of ns-3-click and its design in our WNS3 '11
> paper: http://lalith.in/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/wns3-ns3click-2011.pdf
>
>> best regards,
>> Bart
>>
>> On 26 May 2011, at 22:08, Ruben Merz wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Click users,
>>>
>>> We would like to announce the availability of Click support in the
>>> ns-3 simulator (http://www.nsnam.org). This work is the outcome of the
>>> ns-3 GSOC 2010 project of Lalith Suresh. The code is available now, with
>>> the latest ns-3.11 release (http://www.nsnam.org/download.html).
>>> Feature-wise, we believe it is quite complete. Nevertheless, development
>>> is still underway in order to support promiscuous mode (patch to Click
>>> coming soon) as well as the ability to support Click elements relying on
>>> radiotap headers (thanks to the NSOC project of Ashwin Narayan
>>> http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/NSOC2011ClickMac).
>>>
>>> Documentation is available here:
>>> http://www.nsnam.org/docs/models/index.html#document-click as well as
>>> from the accompanying examples, the ns-3 tutorial or its manual.
>>>
>>> Feel free to contact the ns-3-users mailing list
>>> (http://groups.google.com/group/ns-3-users), Lalith or myself if you
>>> have any question.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Ruben
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>>
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