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02 - NS2 Installation Guide

The document provides step-by-step instructions for installing NS-2 and the TEL Mobile WiMAX Module on a Cygwin platform. It describes downloading NS-2 files from SourceForge, extracting and installing them, modifying configuration files, checking out the latest code using SVN, recompiling NS-2, and verifying the installation by running sample scripts. The installation is a lengthy multi-step process involving setting environment variables, modifying files, and recompiling NS-2 using the TEL version from SourceForge.

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02 - NS2 Installation Guide

The document provides step-by-step instructions for installing NS-2 and the TEL Mobile WiMAX Module on a Cygwin platform. It describes downloading NS-2 files from SourceForge, extracting and installing them, modifying configuration files, checking out the latest code using SVN, recompiling NS-2, and verifying the installation by running sample scripts. The installation is a lengthy multi-step process involving setting environment variables, modifying files, and recompiling NS-2 using the TEL version from SourceForge.

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Installing NS-2 and the TEL Mobile WiMAX Module

TEL-WIMAX-NS2 project documentation [www.TEL.unl.edu] Page 1



NS2 INSTALLATION GUIDE
1. Download the file ns-allinone-2.29.tar.gz from sourceforge at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tel-wimax-ns2/files/ns2-allinone/ns-allinone-
2.29.tar.gz and save it into the folder C:\cygwin\opt.
2. Open Cygwin Bash Shell by executing cygwin.bat file in your C:\cygwin folder.
You will be greeted by the screen of Figure 1.

Figure 1: Cygwin Bash Shell
3. Type cd c:/cygwin/opt as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Unzipping NS-2
4. Type tar -zvxf ns-allinone-2.29.tar.gz to extract the ns-2 files as shown in Figure
2.
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5. After the files are extracted type cd ns-allinone-2.29 (or cd ns* for shortcut) and
then type ./install as shown in Figure 4. Note the dot (.) in front of the slash.

Figure 3: Starting Installation Process
6. NS-2 installation will start and you will get a screen as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4: Installation in progress

7. If you are warned about missing files, just type y and go ahead with the
installation.
8. After installation is complete you will see the screen of Figure 5.
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Figure 5: Installation Complete
9. If you have the .bashrc file in your $HOME folder located at
C:\cygwin\home\your_name (e.g. C:\cygwin\home\developer)

i) Goto C:\cygwin\home\your_name, find the .bashrc file and modify it. By
adding the following text


# Functions#
#########
export NS_HOME=/opt/ns-allinone-2.29
export PATH=$NS_HOME/bin:$NS_HOME/tcl8.4.11/unix:$NS_HOME/tk8.4.11/unix:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NS_HOME/otcl-1.11:$NS_HOME/lib:\ $NS_HOME/otcl-
1.8:$NS_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export TCL_LIBRARY=$NS_HOME/tcl8.4.11/library
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ii) Restart cygwin.

Note: Please use a LINUX based test editor or software like UltraEdit for text
editing and choose line terminator as UNIX Terminators-LF while saving.

10. If you dont have the file in your $HOME folder, copy .bashrc file from
C:\cygwin\etc\defaults\etc\skel to C:\cygwin\home\your_name and modify
and save it as in step 11.
11. Open the file profile from C:\cygwin\etc using a text editor and add the line


. "$HOME/.bashrc"

Note that there is a space between the first dot and "$HOME/.bashrc".

12. Using the Cygwin bash shell prompt cd into /opt/ns-allinone-2.29
13. Rename the folder ns2.29 into something else. It is used for backup purposes
only. We typically rename it to ns2.29_old. For example, type:

mv ns2.29 ns2.29_old

14. Using SVN (Subversion) check out the latest stable code from sourceforge. To
do so, execute the following from within Cygwin, in folder /opt/ns2-allinone-2.29

svn co https://tel-wimax-ns2.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tel-wimax-ns2/trunk ns2.29

15. When the SVN checkout completed, cd to /opt/ns-allinone-2.29/ns2.29 as shown
in Figure 6.
16. Type ./configure;make clean;make at the prompt and hit enter.

Figure 6: Installing NS-2 (TEL version)
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17. The compilation process will begin. This is a lengthy process. After NS-2 has
been successfully compiled, you should see a screen as shown in Figure 7.


Figure 7: NS-2 installation complete
18. After successful compilation, try running one of our scripts for verification. Three
samples are provided in the sample folder inside the checked out ns-2.29
directory structure. The way to create and execute NS-2 scripts is documented in
the accompanying tutorials. It is better to change the current working folder to the
folder containing the scripts for file management purposes.

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