Loreno, you may want to have a look at the following paper: Naumov et al., "The Study of Inter-Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks on Realistic Vehicular Traces", MOBIHOC 2006. It's about 802.11 and vehicular networks, but it exploits the RSSI information to estimate the distance between nodes.
Regards, Marco >----Messaggio originale---- >Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com >Data: 18-ott-2006 7.58 PM >A: "Marco Fiore"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <ns-users@isi.edu> >Ogg: Re: R: [ns] RSSI measurement > >Hi Marco, very thanks to your reply! > >I will take a look at the structure you said and doing some tests. Based in >what you said, probably this solves my problem. A priori I am only >considering simpler scenarios where I do not need to deal with >interferences. My actual concern is only finding a way of estimating the >distance between two bluetooth devices, and I thought RSSI was the >straingforward solution... > >Regards, > >Loreno > >On 10/18/06, Marco Fiore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Loreno, >> >> in common/packet-stamp.h you can find the PacketStamp >> structure, which is >> included in any ns packet. It stores information on >> the transmitted and received >> power. You can access this information >> with, for example, p->txInfo_.RxPr, >> which returns the received power >> of packet p. Note that the original implementation >> of ns does not >> include interference: if you want to add this feature, you can install >> the patch for wireless support you can find at http://www.reti.polito. >> it/fiore >> >> bye, >> >> Marco >> >> >----Messaggio originale---- >> >Da: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Data: 18-ott-2006 12.38 AM >> >A: <ns- [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> EDU> >> >Ogg: [ns] RSSI measurement >> > >> > >> >Hi All, >> > >> >does anybody know how >> do I measure the RSSI between two wireless nodes?? As >> >far as I have >> seen in the archive, this question has been posted during >> >years in >> this list without any reply. I will be extremelly thankful if >> >somebody >> had some hint about it. >> > >> >Regards, >> > >> >Loreno >> > >> >> >> >