Announcement: oTWLAN – a tool to simulate tactical ad-hoc networks
oTWLAN models a wireless ad-hoc network, which supports multi-level
precedence and preemption (MLPP) over a DSSS radio. This open source project
facilitates throughput/delay performance study through a GUI based user
interface. oTWLAN has many
similar characteristics to WLAN (IEEE 802.11) but also provides a 100kbps radio
channel for enlarged radio coverage, relaying of traffic for increased service
coverage area and priority handling of user traffic. The latter is especially
important for military and emergency network. The simulator has been developed
within the GOSIKT project at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment where
we study the performance of PKI over tactical ad-hoc networks. Chapter 2 in the
user manual included in this open source project illustrates the usage of the
simulator while other chapters describe the network protocols implemented.
Later versions of this project will be published on
http://sourceforge.net/