可扩展的移动模拟动画：EXAMS
EXtensible Animator for Mobile Simulations: EXAMS
摘要：
网络模拟器2（NS-2）是移动无线网络中使用最广泛的仿真环境之一。然而NS-2将其结果存储在文本文件中，因此需要一个可视化工具来动画模拟无线网络。该工具的目的是帮助研究人员详细研究无线协议如何在网络和节点上工作。很明显，这些信息中的大部分是依赖于协议的，并且不能通过通用动画过程来适当地描述。现有的动画工具不提供这种级别的信息，也不允许特定的协议来控制动画。EXAMS是一个NS-2移动仿真可视化工具，可以描绘NS-2内部信息，如传输特性和节点数据结构。这主要是由于EXAMS可扩展体系结构将动画过程分为通用和协议特定部分。后者可以由协议设计者独立开发并按需加载。EXAMS工具的这些和其他有用的特性可以为研究人员提供宝贵的帮助，以便调查和调试移动网络协议。
英文摘要：
One of the most widely used simulation environments for mobile wireless networks is the Network Simulator 2 (NS-2). However NS-2 stores its outcome in a text file, so there is a need for a visualization tool to animate the simulation of the wireless network. The purpose of this tool is to help the researcher examine in detail how the wireless protocol works both on a network and a node basis. It is clear that much of this information is protocol dependent and cannot be depicted properly by a general purpose animation process. Existing animation tools do not provide this level of information neither permit the specific protocol to control the animation at all. EXAMS is an NS-2 visualization tool for mobile simulations which makes possible the portrayal of NS-2 internal information like transmission properties and node data structures. This is mainly possible due to EXAMS extensible architecture which separates the animation process into a general and a protocol specific part. The latter can be developed independently by the protocol designer and loaded on demand. These and other useful characteristics of the EXAMS tool can be an invaluable help for a researcher in order to investigate and debug a mobile networking protocol.
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