NS2-MIUN

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NS2-MIUN: 

Ns-2 is a popular open source network simulator. A lot of researchers in the community of wireless sensor networks have used ns2 to verify their research results. However, ns2 is not an easy tool for the simulation of sensor networks, partially because of its high difficulty in understanding the ns2 itself, and also because their is currently lack of support for sensor network simulation.

I am using ns2 with my sensor network research, and I share my experience and source code of sensor network simulation using ns2 here. It is supposed to be helpful for those who have similar research interests as me. I modify ns-2.27 to support wireless sensor network simulation, with a specialty on intrusion detection simulation. The enhanced parts in my modified version (with a new name NS2-MIUN) are listed in the following:

• The integration of NRL's phenomenon node, which enables the ability of simulating an environmental phenomenon.

• The integration of AODVUU, which is a AODV routing protocol implementation that follows AODV specification better than the one included in the standard ns2 release.

• The definition of a new packet type PT_SensorApp , which is used to simulate the type of packets used by sensor application.

• The support of dynamic packet destination configuration. In the standard ns2 release, the <src, dst> pair is configured by statically binding an agent in the source node with an agent in the destination node in the TCL scenario file. This means a source node needs to configure multiple source agents when there are multiple potential receipents and bind each potential <src, dst> pair manually at the configuration file. This doesn't scale well in a dynamic wireless sensor network, where the destination node can vary over time. This drawback is fixed by allowing run-time <src, dst> binding. An example can be seen in the sensorapp.cc file, where a source agent can be configured to launch a DOS attack to any specified destination node during runtime.

• The integration of an intrusion detection module. It is a module inserted between the MAC layer and the network layer that caputures all packets and impose intrusion detection analysis. Currently, this module is implemented as a trace module, by modifying cmu-trace.cc and some other related source files. Users can easily replace my code with their own intrusion detection algorithms if their algorithms are also traffic-based. The understanding of CMU Monarch project's wireless extention to ns2 is a prerequisite to understand the idea of this intrusion detection module.

• The imitation of different attacks. The attacks implemented include wormhole, symbil/ID spoofing, DOS/DDOS, sinkhole, etc.

• An extension of simulating multi-homed node in ns-2. An explanatory document of this extension is available here. Source files which are related to this extension are available here.

• etc.

The compiled source file of my ns2 version (NS2-MIUN) is available here. I suppose it works directly when you download it and put it in a ns-2 suitable enviroment. If that doens't work, one may need to firstly download and install a ns-2.27 version from the ns2 website , and then replace the installed directory of ns-2.27 with mine, the compilation is however unnecessary unless there is change in my source file. Note that one must make sure all supporting softwares for ns2 have been properly installed on his/her system, and a ns-2.27 bash file is configured by running command source ./.bashrc-ns2.27 before using any ns2 command. The details of how to configure and run ns2 command and scenario file is not supposed to be explained by me. There is however a good FAQ available here.

Example TCL scenarios about how to use NS2-MIUN is available here.

I am glad to announce that I'm starting writing a readme.txt about NS2-MIUN. Although the readme.txt avaiable now is still preliminary, it will be updated according to my available time and also according to the requests. For the features that are not included in this readme.txt, the persons who are interested are recommended to mainly check the files under directory sensornets-NRL and directory trace, since most of my change are within these two directories. But files under directories like tcl, common, etc. have also be changed, it will be a tough work to find all my changes.

(I have repeated the installation process of NS2-MIUN and the details is available here.)

Last updated: 2009-04-07 (not maintained anymore)