Developing Tools for Parsing ns-2 Results: IEEE802.21 Case Scenario

Hugo Marques; José Ribeiro; Paulo Marques; Jonathan Rodriguez

Mobile Multimedia Communications. 6th International ICST Conference, MOBIMEDIA 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, September 6-8, 2010. Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Developing Tools for Parsing ns-2 Results: IEEE802.21 Case Scenario

Download

55 downloads

Cite: BibTeX Plain Text

@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-35155-6_28,
    author={Hugo Marques and Jos\^{e} Ribeiro and Paulo Marques and Jonathan Rodriguez},
    title={Developing Tools for Parsing ns-2 Results: IEEE802.21 Case Scenario},
    proceedings={Mobile Multimedia Communications. 6th International ICST Conference, MOBIMEDIA 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, September 6-8, 2010. Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={MOBIMEDIA},
    year={2012},
    month={12},
    keywords={802.21 handover heterogeneous networks MIH ns-2 simulation},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-35155-6_28}
}

Hugo Marques
José Ribeiro
Paulo Marques
Jonathan Rodriguez
Year: 2012
Developing Tools for Parsing ns-2 Results: IEEE802.21 Case Scenario
MOBIMEDIA
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35155-6_28

Hugo Marques¹^,*, José Ribeiro²^,*, Paulo Marques²^,*, Jonathan Rodriguez²^,*

1: Escola Superior de Tecnologia
2: Instituto de Telecomunicações

*Contact email: hugo@ipcb.pt, jcarlosvgr@gmail.com, pmarques@av.it.pt, jonathan@av.it.pt

Abstract

Recent work by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology produced new add-on modules for the popular network simulator tool, ns-2, that allow users to simulate vertical (heterogeneous) handover scenarios in a network topology consisted by different radio access technologies such as WiMAX, Wi-Fi and UMTS. The developed Media Independent Handover functionality was based on draft 3 of the recent IEEE 802.21 standard. By using this modified version of ns-2, this paper presents two new tools to parse the resulting ns-2 tracing files and provide a graphical view of simulated scenarios and common metrics for evaluating the handover performance.

Keywords: 802.21 handover heterogeneous networks MIH ns-2 simulation

Published: 2012-12-05

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35155-6_28