ns2 installation in Ubuntu 14.04

This post tells you how to install ns-2.35 in ubuntu 14.04 64 bit Operating system.

 

NS2 installation in  Ubuntu 14.04

This post also posts a video that shows the installation instructions.
1. There is no audio in this video, please bear with me but these texts will make you understand how the installation is done in linux.
2. Copy the source file into the home folder
/home/pradeepkumar/ns-allinone-2.35.tar.gz3. give this command to untar or unzip the software
    tar zxvf ns-allinone-2.35.tar.gz
    cd ns-allinone-2.35/
    ./installThis command will take some time to get ns2 installed....
Before step 1, give these commands (These commands will install the developmental libraries like C, C++, Tcl, Tk, etc)
    sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libxmu-dev
You may get an error in the ~ns-2.35/linkstate/ls.h file about a small correction in the C++ constructor
change a function erase to this->erase and then try ./install
This is the only error you can experience when installing ns2.35 under any of the OS (Fedora, Ubuntu or Linux Mint)

All your developmental libraries are available in the ns-allinone-2.35/ns-2.35/ folder only (There may be other folders that you do not need at all, all your recompilation, examples, protocols, agents, packets, etc will be under the folder ~ns-2.35/)
Once the installation is over, you need to set the path to make ns and nam works from any terminal.....
To set the path, here are the files
in ubuntu - /home/pradeepkumar/.bashrc
in Linux Mint - /home/pradeepkumar/.profile
in Fedora - /home/pradeepkumar/.bash_profile
So i need to set the path in the file .bashrc (Which will be available in the home folder of my machine)
Now installation is over.... now to set the path

Once the path is set, you need to check whether ns and nam are working. type ns and nam and see whether they are giving any results.
they are not working, as the PATH what we set is not yet sourced
one method is logout and login back or else
try  giving this command

source /home/pradeepkumar/.bashrc (you should not get any errors, if you get then there may be something wrong in the path setting)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!Installation success!!!!!!


 T S Pradeep Kumar

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APP Tool for analysing the tracefiles for NS2

There is a new tool that is developed by WING of NIT Surathkal. This tool analyze most of the aspects like

• throughput 
• goodput
• residual energy of a node
• delay
• packet delivery ratio
• etc

and also plot graphs based on the python-matplotlib package

Download this tool from github https://github.com/WiNG-NITK/APP-Tool/archive/master.zip

Unzip it and give the following commands one by one

$prompt] sudo apt-get udpate
$prompt] sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib
$prompt] cd APP-Tool-master/
$prompt] python GUI_Main.py

Here are some of the screenshots
To open the App-tool-master

App-tool-master

 

App-tool-master

 The following is to plot the throughput

App-tool-master

 This is for the throughput values to be plotted

App-tool-master

 The following for plotting the delay

App-tool-master

The source codes with awk files are given inside the folder Final/. if anyone needs the awk for processing without this front end, you can use that too.
To run awk files

$prompt] awk -f Avg_Del.awk /full/path/to/your/tracefile.tr
or
$prompt] gawk -f Avg_Del.awk /full/path/to/your/tracefile.tr

This will print the average delay (See the following screenshot)

awk code for throughput and delay

 T S Pradeep Kumar

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Open Source Softwares for Research by USC

University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute (creator of Network Simulator 2 software) is giving royalty free software for researchers and students in various computing domains. You can visit their link and download the software based on some acceptance. (almost all are free and open source).

• BSL: A system for learning blocking schemes (helpful for large Data Sources)
• Carmel Finite State toolkit (It is a finite state transducer package)
• EIDOS: Efficiently Inducing Definitions for Online Sources
• PowerLoom (Knowledge representation and reasoning system)
• ISI Rewrite Decoder
• RST Annotation Tool
• SPADE (Sentence-level PArsing for DiscoursE)
• BE: Basic Elements for Automated Evaluation of Summaries
• Tiburon is a tree transducer package
• TORC (Tools for Reconfigurable Computing)
• Trellis (Semantic Web)
• Wings (Semantic workflow System)

Open Source Software from USC

Enjoy the Softwares that needed for you from the website of USC http://www.isi.edu/services/open-source_software/
T S Pradeep Kumar

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