Network Simulation Evaluation (NS2)

Wireless new trace format

[Example]
s -t 0.001978125 -Hs 12 -Hd -2 -Ni 12 -Nx 0.00 -Ny 0.00 -Nz 0.00 -Ne -1.000000 -Nl MAC -Nw --- -Ma 0 -Md c000000 -Ms ffff0008 -Mt message -Is 12.42 -Id -1.42 -It message -Il 30 -If 0 -Ii 2 -Iv 32 

1st field - Packet event

s: send

r: recv

d:drop

f: forward

2nd field - Event time 

-t time

3rd field - Next hop info

-Hs: id for this node

-Hd: id to the next hop towards the destination

  -> -1 broadcast

  -> -2 not deployed yet

4th field - Node property

-Ni:

-Nx -Ny -Nz : node's coordinate

Ne: node energy level

Nl: trace level (ex: AGT..etc)

Nw: reason for the event - 

“END” DROP_END_OF_SIMULATION“COL” DROP_MAC_COLLISION“DUP” DROP_MAC_DUPLICATE“ERR” DROP_MAC_PACKET_ERROR“RET” DROP_MAC_RETRY_COUNT_EXCEEDED“STA” DROP_MAC_INVALID_STATE“BSY” DROP_MAC_BUSY“NRTE” DROP_RTR_NO_ROUTE 
“LOOP” DROP_RTR_ROUTE_LOOP 
“TTL” DROP_RTR_TTL 
“TOUT” DROP_RTR_QTIMEOUT 
“CBK” DROP_RTR_MAC_CALLBACK“IFQ” DROP_IFQ_QFULL  
“ARP” DROP_IFQ_ARP_FULL 
“OUT” DROP_OUTSIDE_SUBNET

5th field - Packet info at IP level

-Is: source address.port

-Id: dst address.port

-It: packet type

-Il: packet size

-If: flow id

-Ii: unique id

-Iv: time to live

6th field - Packet info at MAC level

-Ma: duration

-Md: destination's addr

-Ms: source's addr

-Mt: ethernet type