NS3 Simulation Example

Introduction

This is a simple example for use with PlayerNSD to use ns3 as the backend for simulation.

Dependencies

• CMake (tested with 2.8.1)
• PlayerNSD (tested with 0.0.1)
• NS3 (tested with tip)

Building NS3

Instructions on how to build NS3 from the mercurial tip are available here.

A quick start for those on Linux systems,

    $ cd $BUILDDIR
    $ hg clone http://code.nsnam.org/ns-3-allinone
    $ cd ns-3-allinone
    $ python download.py -n ns-3-dev
    $ python build.py --enable-examples
    $ cd ns-3-dev
    $ ./waf install --prefix=$INSTALLPATH --destdir=$INSTALLPATH

This assumes $BUILDDIR and $INSTALLPATH are defined as being the build directory and the target install directory respectively.

Building

$ cd nssim
$ mkdir -p build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

Running

This generates a wifisim executable that can be run through playernsd

Assuming you are the playernsd directory $ ./playernsd pathto/nssim/build/wifisim

This will pass all messages through the wifisim executable.