[Click] Click support in ns-3

[Lalith Suresh]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Eddie Kohler <kohler at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> 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!
>

Done!

> 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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>>
>>
>>
>



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Lalith Suresh
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico
www.lalith.in