New Wireless Trace Formats

The new trace format as seen above can be can be divided into the following fields :

1）Event type he first field (as in the older trace format) describes the type of event taking place at the nodeand can be one of the four types:

s send

r receive

d drop

f forward

2）General tag The second field starting with "-t" may stand for time or global setting

-t time

-t * (global setting)

3）Next hop info This field provides next hop info and the tag starts with a leading "-H".

-Hs: id for this node

-Hd: id for next hop towards the destination.

4）Node property tags This field denotes the node properties like node-id, the level at which tracing is being done like agent, router or MAC. The tags start with a leading "-N" and are listed as below:

-Ni: node id

-Nx: node’s x-coordinate

-Ny: node’s y-coordinate

-Nz: node’s z-coordinate

-Ne: node energy level

-Nl: trace level, such as AGT, RTR, MAC

-Nw: reason for the event. The different reasons for dropping a packet are given below:

"END" DROP_END_OF_SIMULATION

"COL" DROP_MAC_COLLISION

"DUP" DROP_MAC_DUPLICATE

"ERR" DROP_MAC_PACKET_ERROR

"RET" DROP_MAC_RETRY_COUNT_EXCEEDED

"STA" DROP_MAC_INVALID_STATE

"BSY" DROP_MAC_BUSY

"NRTE" DROP_RTR_NO_ROUTE i.e no route is available.

"LOOP" DROP_RTR_ROUTE_LOOP i.e there is a routing loop

"TTL" DROP_RTR_TTL i.e TTL has reached zero.

"TOUT" DROP_RTR_QTIMEOUT i.e packet has expired.

"CBK" DROP_RTR_MAC_CALLBACK

"IFQ" DROP_IFQ_QFULL i.e no buffer space in IFQ.

"ARP" DROP_IFQ_ARP_FULL i.e dropped by ARP

"OUT" DROP_OUTSIDE_SUBNET i.e dropped by base stations on receiving routing updates from nodes outside its domain.

5）Packet info at MAC level This field gives MAC layer information and starts with a leading "-M" as shown below:

-Ma: duration

-Md: dst’s ethernet address

-Ms: src’s ethernet address

-Mt: ethernet type

6）Packet information at IP level The tags for this field start with a leading "-I" and are listed along with their explanations asfollowing:

-Is: source address.source port number

-Id: dest address.dest port number

-It: packet type

-Il: packet size

-If: flow id

-Ii: unique id

-Iv: ttl value

7）Packet info at "Application level" The packet information at application level consists of the type of application like ARP,TCP, the type of adhoc routing protocol like DSDV, DSR, AODV etc being traced. This field consists of a leading "-P" and list of tags for different application is listed as below:

-P arp Address Resolution Protocol. Details for ARP is given by the following tags:

-Po: ARP Request/Reply

-Pm: src mac address

-Ps: src address

-Pa: dst mac address

-Pd: dst address

-P dsr This denotes the adhoc routing protocol called Dynamic source routing. Information on DSR is represented bythe following tags:

-Pn: how many nodes traversed

-Pq: routing request flag

-Pi: route request sequence number

-Pp: routing reply flag

-Pl: reply length

-Pe: src of srcrouting->dst of the source routing

-Pw: error report flag ?

-Pm: number of errors

-Pc: report to whom

-Pb: link error from linka->linkb

-P cbr Constant bit rate. Information about the CBR application is represented by the following tags:

-Pi: sequence number

-Pf: how many times this pkt was forwarded

-Po: optimal number of forwards

-P tcp Information about TCP flow is given by the following subtags:

-Ps: seq number

-Pa: ack number

-Pf: how many times this pkt was forwarded

-Po: optimal number of forwards

This field is still under development and new tags shall be added for other applications as they get included along theway.

reference:

https://ant.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/NS-2_Trace_Formats#Old_Wireless_Trace_Formats

New Wireless Trace Formats