Installing ns-3.34 in Ubuntu 20.04

This post shows how to install ns 3.34 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Prerequisites:

• Fresh installation of Ubuntu Version 20.04 LTS 
• ns3.34 can be downloaded from here

Follow the video link for complete step by step instructions on the installation. 

This version fixes the compilation issues of vanet-routing-compare.cc (bug in ns3.33) 

Issue the following commands after opening a terminal 

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt install g++ python3 python3-dev python-dev pkg-config sqlite3 python3-setuptools git qt5-default gir1.2-goocanvas-2.0 python3-gi python3-gi-cairo python3-pygraphviz gir1.2-gtk-3.0 ipython3 openmpi-bin openmpi-common openmpi-doc libopenmpi-dev autoconf cvs bzr unrar openmpi-bin openmpi-common openmpi-doc libopenmpi-dev tcpdump wireshark libxml2 libxml2-dev

Unzip or untar the ns-allinone-3.34.tar.bz2 in the home folder (in my case its /home/pradeepkumar)

$ cd ns-allinone-3.34/

$ ./build.py --enable-examples --enable-tests 

Once the installation is completed, you may get an output shown as below

ns-3.34 in Ubuntu 20.04

The following packages are installed

Visualizer

NetAnim

Python Bindings

Wireshark

ns3

GNU Scientific Library IEEE 802.11b 

MPI 

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VANET-routing-compare error in ns-3.33

In network simulator 3, while simulating the vanet-routing-compare.cc file, you may get an error in ns-3.33 version as shown below:

msg="GlobalValue name=VRCcumulativeBsmCaptureStart: input value is not a string", 

file=../src/core/model/global-value.cc, line=128
terminate called without an active exception
Command ['/home/ns3/Desktop/ns-allinone-3.33/ns-3.33/build/scratch/vanet-routing-compare'] terminated with signal SIGIOT. Run it under a debugger to get more information (./waf --run <program> --gdb").

To overcome this error, here is the patch to download

https://github.com/tspradeepkumar/ns3/blob/main/vanet.patch

Once downloaded, move this file to 

~ns-3.33/scratch/ folder and copy the vanet-routing-compare.cc also to the scratch/ folder and apply the following command 

$ cd ns-allinone-3.33/ns-3.33/scratch

$ patch -p0 < vanet.patch vanet-routing-compare.cc 

Check the following video for explanation of vanet-routing-compare.cc and its characteristics.

Please find the screenshot of the action:

ns-3.33 vanet

vanet-routing-compare.cc in ns-3.33

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MQTT using Node JS | Node JS Tutorial

This post shows you Simple MQTT Application using Node JS. There are three parts of the application.

For running any MQTT application, we need a 

1. Broker (The broker can be anywhere in the Internet or cloud or a local machine) 

2. Publisher (pub.js is the name of the file)

3. Subscriber (sub.js is the name of the file)

Check the following video for complete instructions.

In this example, we will be using a broker called https://www.hivemq.com

To use the cloud broker (mqtt://broker.hivemq.com) and connect the publisher and subscriber with a topic and a message. To install the Hive MQ software in your local machine (127.0.0.1) and run the same above code locally and make the connectivity between the pub-sub.

• We open two new .js files called pub.js (publisher) and sub.js (subscriber) in Visual Studio Code. To install the mqtt module in NodeJS, we use the command “npm install mqtt” in C:/ terminal. 
• We define our client as connecting to “mqtt://broker.hivemq.com”. We connect to the cloud broker in both publisher and subscriber js modules. We have taken temperature and temperature value as our message. The source code is given below. 
• To execute our code, we open two terminals and use the command “node pub.js” and then in the other one, “node sub.js”. In the left command prompt, we have published, and in the one on the right, we have subscribed. We can see the outputs match each other. 

MQTT using Node JS

Using cloud broker:

Pub.js:

const mqtt = require("mqtt");

var client = mqtt.connect("mqtt://broker.hivemq.com");

client.on("connect",function()

{

    setInterval(function(){

        var random = Math.random()*50;

        console.log(random);

        if(random<30)

        {

            client.publish("Pradeep","temperature value: "+random.toString());

        }

    }),30000;

});

Sub.js:

const mqtt = require("mqtt");

var client = mqtt.connect("mqtt://broker.hivemq.com");

client.on("connect",function()

{

    client.subscribe("Shirish");

    console.log("Client subscribed ");

});

client.on("message",function(topic, message){

    console.log(message.toString());

});

Using local broker:

• To run the broker locally, we first install HiveMQ on our system.

HiveMQ for MQTT

Pub.js:

const mqtt = require("mqtt");

var client = mqtt.connect("mqtt://127.0.0.1:1883");

client.on("connect",function()

{

    setInterval(function(){

        var random = Math.random()*50;

        console.log(random);

        if(random<30)

        {

            client.publish("Shirish","temperature value: "+random.toString());

        }

    }),30000;

});

Sub.js:

const mqtt = require("mqtt");

var client = mqtt.connect("mqtt://127.0.0.1:1883");

client.on("connect",function()

{

    setInterval(function(){

        var random = Math.random()*50;

        console.log(random);

        if(random<30)

        {

            client.publish("Shirish","temperature value: "+random.toString());

        }

    }),30000;

});

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