SMECN protocol and RNS algorithm

SMECN protocol and RNS algorithm

[mpaszta, 2013-02-13 17:18:08]

As my Master Thesis project I implemented (and improved) a routing protocol
called SMECN (Small Minimum Energy Communication Network) and an algorithm
called RNS (Redundant Node Selection). I'd like to ask for a code review and
when the code is good enough I will be very proud to see it added to the ns-3
development tree.

There are three main things I did:

1) The wifi tx power levels issue described in this bug report:
https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=917 has not yet been officially
solved, so I provided my own minimum-influence fix to YansWifiPhy.

2) RNS module was implemented but it doesn't make sense without an application
or a protocol making use of it. Hence, I modified DSDV to realize a simple
example with actual aggregation and communication of RNS (rns-dsdv-example). RNS
is written using templates to allow wider usage range. I wrote some decent
documentation, which can be either compiled using the Makefile provided or
browsed on-line here: http://michalpaszta.pl/ns3_rns_documentation/index.html

3) SMECN module is an Ipv4-compliant routing protocol. It comes with tests,
examples and some documentation. It makes real use of RNS module (if
aggregated).


At first I posted the patch in a wrong discussion group:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ns-3-users/ebul-xbvTio/discussion. But the
attachment to that message and the message itself might give some better
understanding of what was implemented.