Subject: OPNET model for DSR available for downloading

From: [email-masked]
Date: 12 Dec 2000 14:07:10 -0800

The Wireless Communications Technologies Group (WCTG) at NIST has developed an OPNET model for the DSR MANET routing protocol running on an 802.11 radio node platform.  The model includes a debugged version of the 802.11 OPNET model that has been modified slightly to work with multihop networks.

The source code for the files can be downloaded from

http://w3.antd.nist.gov/wctg/prd_dsrfiles.html

A link to the TAR-compressed file of the various model files is made available after the user fills in a simple form for statistical purposes.

Also available at the URL given above are two PDF files that document the NIST DSR model.  One file is an overview of the model that explains the basic operation of the DSR protocol and the modeling choices that have been made vis-a-vis the Internet drafts that specify the operation of the protocol.  For example, some of the features of the latest DSR draft, released in November 2000, are too new to have been implemented in the model.  The overview explains which features of the draft have been adopted in the NIST model and which have not.
     The second PDF file that is available at the URL given above is a technical appendix that classifies and describes the many functions and data structures that are embedded in the model, along with a listing of the OPNET files comprising the model.

The primary author of the NIST DSR OPNET model is NIST guest researcher Xavier Pallot, who built on earlier modeling efforts by guest researchers Nicolas Roux and Jean-Sebastien Pegot.

--Leonard E. Miller
  Wireless Communication Technologies Group
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  [email-masked]
  [email-masked]

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