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| Huginn: A 3D Visualizer for Wireless ns-2 Traces |
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Björn Scheuermann
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| Proc. of the 8th ACM International Symposium on
Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile
Systems (MSWiM'05), pp.
134-150, Montreal, Canada, October 2005 |
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| Discrete-event network simulation is a major
tool for the research and development of mobile ad-hoc networks
(MANETs). These simulations are used for debugging, teaching,
understanding, and performance-evaluating MANET protocols. For
the first three tasks, visualization of the processes occurring
in the simulated network is crucial for verification and
credibility of the generated results. Working with the popular
network simulator ns-2, we have not yet found a visualization
toolkit capable of reading native ns-2 trace files and providing
means to change the evaluated parameters without changing the
visualization software. Thus, we developed Huginn, a software
providing an intuitive way to visualize simulation properties and
to determine how they should be displayed without the need of
programming. In addition, Huginn has a 3D interface allowing a
high exploitation of the (human) users perceptive system. It
helps to handle the significant cognitive load associated with
the mental reconstruction of simulated network processes. Besides
presenting the software interface and architecture, we describe
algorithmic solutions that might be of a more general interest
for similar problems. |
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