PatAdHoc

1. What's PatAdHoc?
2. Demo
3. Downloads

1. What's PatAdHoc?

PatAdHoc is a software tool for generating mobility patterns in ad hoc networks with obstacles in order to carry out more realistic simulations with the NS-2 network simulator. The simulations are more realistic because PatAdHoc bears in mind the existing obstacles within the scenario when it generates the patterns, defining the paths as the equidistant points to their two closest obstacles vertices, meanwhile the patterns generated by the application setdest of NS-2 follow arbitrary paths, since setdest uses the Random Waypoint model.

For generating the patterns, it’s necessary to input the characteristics of the scenario (dimensions and coordinates of the obstacles) and the parameters of the simulation. The characteristics of the scenario can be input by hand or loaded from a text file.

The tool returns a text file containing the generated patterns and allows to visualize the simulation of these patterns. Besides, it allows to visualize the simulation of patterns generated before.

2. Demo

In this section a demo of the tool PatAdHoc is shown. The basic steps to use it are:

1º Input the dimensions of the scenario and press the button "ACCEPT DIMENSIONS".
2º Input the coordinates of the vertices of each obstacle and press "ACCEPT OBSTACLE".
3º After inputting the obstacles, press the button "GENERATE PATTERNS" to start the generation of the patterns.
4º Once patterns have been calculated, users can view the simulation of these patterns before these are shown in a window.

Remark:This demo is a simplified version of the tool, since due to security problems associated to applets, the access to files of the local machine is denied. Because of that, the output of the demo is through the middle of a window instead of a text file, no scenarios can be loaded or saved from / to files and no saved patterns can be viewed either.

3. Downloads

In this section, the tool PatAdHoc, user’s manual and an example of simulation scenario are available for downloading:

• PatAdHoc: PatAdHoc.jar
• User's manual: PatAdHoc_manual_en.pdf
• Example of scenario: Campus of Teatinos of the University of Malaga: Campus_en.txt