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PROCEDURE FOR NS
NS-2
2 EXPERIMENTS (EXP.1 & 2)
Procedure:

STEP 1. Open >Terminal

STEP 2. Terminal

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• Home Directory: (path: /home/wcn)

• NOTE: Working folder is always home directory i.e /home/wcn ( default directory in
Ubuntu)
• All our ns2 code ie. .tcl files must be created in /home/wcn
• 3 types of Files are used in NS2
• .tcl – script file NS2 code ( which has to be writen in gedit)
• .nam – Network Animator File ( Which has be seen in nam)
• .tr– trace file ( which has to be seen in tracegraph202)

in Terminal (type and execute following):

Write the .tcl script using gedit:
(Take example from n3.pdf and ns_by_example.pdfto to write your ns code based on
the problem defination given in Experiment 1 and 2)

SYNTAX: $ gedit <filename.tcl><ENTER>

e.g: $ gedit expt1.tcl <ENTER>
(Write your code in gedit after writing <SAVE><CLOSE>gedit window)

Compile NS code (.tcl) file:

SYNTAX: $ ns <filename.tcl><ENTER>
e.g: $ ns expt1.tcl <ENTER>

The above procedure will create two output files

1. expt1.nam – Network Animator File
2. expt1.tr – Trace file

Execute NAM (e.g expt1.nam):

SYNTAX: $ nam <filename.nam><ENTER>

e.g. $ nam expt1.nam <ENTER>
NOTE: <ENTER>means press enter key

• The Animation can be controlled by PLAY, STOP, FORWARD, BACKBUTTONS

BACK
• Speed can be controlled using the STEP- slider

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Execute trace-file
file (.tr) software required: tracegraph202:
In Terminal execute following:

STEP-1:
1: Go to tracegraph202 directory by change directory command (cd)

SYNTAX:
cd / <ENTER>
cd home/wcn/tracegraph202/bin/glnx86 <ENTER>

STEP-2:
2: export library PATH

SYNTAX: (write below in one single linewithout any ENTER)

export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/wcn/tracegraph202/bin/glnx8
6/

STEP-3: 3: Execute tracegraph ( it will open tracegraph202 window)

SYNTAX:
./trgraph

Steps to open and view your trace

trace-file
file after tracegraph 2.02 Window is open(.tr):
• In Trace graph 2.02 Window Naviagte to File >Open a trace file
• Choose a file to open >Selection
• SYNTAX: /home/wcn/<tracefile_name.tr><OPEN>
e.g. Selection/home/wcn/expt1.tr
/home/wcn/expt1.tr <OPEN>
• After the trace-file
file opens go to Current >“Select the node where you want to see
parameters like throughput”
• Go to Graph-Window
Window and plot 2D and 3D plots as required ( plot 2D plots first
then execute 3D plot at last)
NOTE: once you plot a 3D plot you have to close trgraph2.02 and restart the ./trgraph
from terminal window.

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Experiment-3
Simulation and invertigation of impact of Contention Window size on the
performance of IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocol(NS
Protocol(NS-2)
2)
Procedure:
STEP-1:Put thecwsim.tclscript
script in /home/wcnfolder
STEP-2: Open >Terminal
STEP-3: 3: After opening Terminal Execute following in Terminal Window
$ cd / <ENTER>
$ cd home/wcn
$ gedit cwsim.tcl
STEP-4: In geditwindow thecwsim.tcl
cwsim.tcl code will open
Go to line number 112 and 113 change the Contention Window Size (CW)
2,7,15,31,63,127 for populating the table given in manual.
$val(mac) set CWMin_ 2
$val(mac) set CWMax_ 2
6 set of experiment has to be perform to populate the table.
Each time you change the CW_Min and CW_Max value once you have to run the
script in terminal as follws:

STEP-5: Open >Terminal

$ ns cwsim.tcl -rlen
rlen 3 ( 3 x 3 = 9 nodes)
Number of Packet Sent:
$ grep AGT cwsim.tr | grep ^s | grep cbr | wc -l
Number of Packet Received:
$ grep AGT cwsim.tr | grep ^r| grep cbr | wc -l
Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR)
= Number of Packet Received / Number of Packet Sent

Go to STEP-44 and change the value CW_Min and CW_Max 7 then 15 then 31 so on upto
127. For each change in script, you have to excute the cwsim.
cwsim.tcl
tcl in terminal as given in
STEP-5.

Repeatative execution of STEP

STEP-4 and STEP-55 will give to data to populate the table given
in manual.
CW (3 x 3 =9 nodes) (4 x 4 = 16 nodes) (5 x 5 = 25 nodes)
Size
Packet Packet PDR Packet Packet PDR Packet Packet PDR
Sent (S) Received =R/S Sent (S) Received =R/S Sent (S) Received =R/S
(R) (R) (R)
2
7
15
31
63
127

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Throughput Calculation:

Throughput (bits/ sec.) = 512 x 8 x Number of Packet Received (R)

Simulation Time ( 25 Sec.)

Comparation
omparation PDR for 3 x 3 ; 4 x 4 ;5 x 5 node matrix and finding the optimum
Contention Window Size (CW) by plotting graph using xx-graph

Create 3 files 3x3, 4x4, 5x5using

using gedit and store the value of calculated PDR vs. CW_Size
like below:

In terminal:
STEP-1: $ gedit 3x3 <ENTER>
In gedit write following in two columns as shown below and save and close.
Example:
2 0.00134
7 0.03415
15 0.07889
31 0.04515
63 0.03678
127 0.01234

STEP-2: Repeat STEP-11 to create above mentioned 3 files with the

thePDRin
in above table.

STEP-3: After creating all 3 files 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 PDR vs.CW files plot the x-graph
x by
follwing command in terminal window:

$ xgraph 3x3 4x4 5x5 <ENTER>

Save the graph and comment upon the optimum Contention Winow Size.

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