Hi Jeff, Jeff Schwentner schrieb: > Thanks for the reply! I read your paper (Unified Development and Deployment > of Network Protocols). If I understand this correctly, it looks like it > does not encapsulate the MAC layer. In the firmware I need to simulate, it > has its own MAC and custom packet structure. I really need to simulate the > MAC with my network protocol, is it possible to use GEA for this? If so, > what modifications would be required? >
Currently we encalsulate all packets into UDP packets. But we implemented are own MAC protocol onto of this. The advantage was that it was easy to implement, the downside is the additional overhead. We are currently working to implement a raw socket interface for ns-2 to overcome this problem. At the moment you additionally need to use the DumpAgent for routing (so no routing) in ns-2 and maybe a dump MAC layer that just passes all packets down to the medium. Daniel.
