MiXiM http://mixim.sourceforge.net/

Contents

• Purpose and History
• Copyright
• Authors
• Installation
• Documentation
• Release notes

Purpose and History

MiXiM (mixed simulator) is a simulator for wireless and mobile networks using the OMNeT++ simulation engine. MiXiM is available at http://mixim.sourceforge.net/

MiXiM is the attempt to merge several OMNeT++ simulators written to support mobile and wireless simulations.

Those prdecessors of MiXiM are:

• ChSim http://www.cs.uni-paderborn.de/en/fachgebiete/research-group-computer-networks/projects/chsim.html (c) by Universitaet Paderborn
• Mac Simulator http://www.consensus.tudelft.nl/software.html (c) by Technische Universiteit Delft
• Mobility Framework http://mobility-fw.sourceforge.net/ (c) by Technische Universitaet Berlin, Telecommunication Networks Group
• Positif Framework http://www.consensus.tudelft.nl/software.html (c) by Technische Universiteit Delft

MiXiM further includes the "Mixnet" project which provides compatibility modules and documentation in case you want to use MiXiM together with the INET framework. For details on Mixnet and INET please take a look at its README file in MiXiM's "inet" folder.

Copyright

Copyright (C) 2007

• Technische Universitaet Berlin (TUB), Germany Telecommunication Networks Group

• Technische Universiteit Delft (TUD), Netherlands

• Universitaet Paderborn (UPB), Germany

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

  The TUB, TUD, and UPB do not provide any warranty for MiXiM -- you did not pay for it! Further details can be found in the file COPYING.

  As a good practice, you should acknowledge the work done in MiXiM just as you do if you cite a scientific work.

Authors

The current authors and maintainers of MiXiM are

• Andreas Koepke, TUB ([email protected])
• Hermann S. Lichte, UPB ([email protected])
• Tom Parker, TUD ([email protected])
• Michael Swigulski, TUB ([email protected])
• Stefan Valentin, UPB ([email protected])
• Otto Visser, TUD ([email protected])
• Karl Wessel, TUB ([email protected])
• Daniel Willkomm, TUB ([email protected])

Installation

For installation instructions please see the INSTALL file

How to start

A step-by-step guide on how to start with MiXiM can be found in MiXiM's wiki at: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mixim/wiki/StepByStep

MiXiM contains wizards for the project-creation-wizard in the OMNeT++ IDE. These are:

• a wizard to create a basic MiXiM-network by configuring the hosts from predefines application layers, NIC protocols and mobility modules as well as choosing the playground topology.
• a wizard to create a simple MiXiM-network. The hosts contain an analogue model which can be basically configured in the wizard. This network is useful to implement and test a new analogue model.

To create a new project using MiXiM's wizards please go to: "File -> New -> OMNeT++ Project...", name your project, and in the next step select the wizard to be used. It will present the configuration options during the next step(s). When the creation process has finished, the new MiXiM-network is ready to be built and run.

Documentation

All documentation can be found in the doc directory. If you still have questions after reading these, check out the website at http://mixim.sourceforge.net.

To send any kind of feedback, bug reports, feature requests etc. please use the OMNeT++ mailing list [email protected]. You have to subscribe to it first, see http://www.omnetpp.org/external/maillist.php for details.

Release Notes

See following site for notes on what changed with each release (beginning with 1.2):

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mixim/wiki/WhatChanged