BlueHoc simulator provides a Bluetooth extension for Network Simulator (ver 2.1b6). BlueHoc is available for download under IBM Public License (IPL) from IBM developerWorks . It requires ns-2.1b6 which can be obtained from Network Simulator site.
ns provides extensive support for TCP/IP simulations.
The TCP/IP simulations of ns include various transport layers, routing protocols and
simulated applications and much more. The simulated transport layers include:
- Agent/UDP
- Agent/TCP: Tahoe TCP sender
- Agent/TCP/Reno: Reno TCP sender
- Agent/TCP/NewReno: modified Reno
- Agent/TCP/Sack1: Selective repeat TCP
- Agent/TCP/Vegas: Vegas
ns has Traffic Generators as well as Simulated Applications.
The simulated TCP/IP based applications include:
- Application/FTP: FTP application
- Application/Telnet: Telnet application
The traffic generators include:
- Application/Traffic/Exponential : ON, OFF traffic eg. voice
- Application/Traffic/Pareto : ON, OFF traffic with burst and
idle times taken from Pareto distribution
- Application/Traffic/CBR : constant bit rate traffic
- Application/Traffic/Trace : generates traffic from a trace file
After installing BlueHoc, the proc.tcl file in ~/ns/run directory
has a function config-app which is reponsible for configuring
applications and transport layers for BlueHoc.
# configure application and transport for device 'i'
proc config-app {i} {
global Sim ns
set transport [lindex $Sim(Transport) $i]
# create agent
set Sim(trans:$i) [new Agent/$transport]
set app [lindex $Sim(Application) $i]
# create application
set Sim(appl:$i) [new Application/$app]
set temp [string range $transport 0 2]
if {$temp == "TCP"} {
# if the agent name starts with "TCP", create a TCP sink
set Sim(sink:$i) [new Agent/TCPSink]
} else {
# else create a NULL agent as receiver
set Sim(sink:$i) [new Agent/Null]
}
# attach sender agent to device 0 in the simulation (master)
$ns attach-agent $Sim(dev:0) $Sim(trans:$i)
# attach sink to device 'i'
$ns attach-agent $Sim(dev:[expr $i+1]) $Sim(sink:$i)
# connect source and sink
$ns connect $Sim(trans:$i) $Sim(sink:$i)
# attach agent to the source/application
$Sim(appl:$i) attach-agent $Sim(trans:$i)
# attaches application to the Bluetooth host
$Sim(dev:0) attach-app $i $Sim(appl:$i)
}
Only the last command is required specifically for BlueHoc, while other commands
are standard means of attaching agents, applications and creating connections in ns.
The last command provides a handle of the application to the C++ class BTHost. This is
required because applications are started once the lower level procedures of inquiry, paging
and connection establishment are completed. Since the BThost class objects have
knowledge of lower level status through HCI events, the applications are started
by BTHost through OTcl procedure invokation using tcl.evalf. The procedure attach-app
is defined for the OTcl class BTNode in ~ns/tcl/lib/ns-btnode.tcl.
BlueHoc can be downloaded from the
BlueHoc project page.
The directory hierarchy of the BlueHoc distribution is as shown:
rel1.0
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bluehoc/ INSTALL
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mod/ patches/ src/ tcl/
The file INSTALL contains intallation instructions. The mod/ directory contains the
modified ns files. These files are only required if BlueHoc is being installed for
a version other than ns-2.1b6. The patch files in the patches/ dir are for ns-2.1b6 files which have
been modified for BlueHoc. Directory src/ contains the C++ source code for BlueHoc while tcl/ contains
the tcl source file ns-btnode.tcl which defines BTNode class. It also contains bluehoc.tcl which
implements the graphical interface. The files proc.tcl and run.tcl are used by bluehoc.tcl for
running simulations.
Important:- The installation instructions in INSTALL assume that after uncompressing bluehoc distribution,
the directory tree rooted at bluehoc is moved to ~ns/ i.e. $NSHOME/ns-allinone-2.1b6/ns-2.1b6
where $NSHOME is the path of the directory in which you uncompress the ns-2.1b6 distribution.
In particular the rel1.0 directory should not appear in the installed version of BlueHoc.
Please report any installation problems on
BlueHoc project page.
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