FAQ of NS2

How to change transmission range

First, you need to compile threshold.cc. Then you can obtain corresponding value of RXThresh_, and set the value. In the following example, you can get RxThresh_ value corresponding to 100 meter.

$ cd ns-2.??/indep-utils/propagation/
$ g++ -lm threshold.cc -o threshold

$ ./threshold -m TwoRayGround 100

Then, set the variable in your TCL file, for example:

Phy/WirelessPhy set RxThresh_ 3.65262e-10

How to access a routing agent from a TCL file

The instance of mobilenode defined in tcl/lib/ns-mobilenode.tcl has a variable, "ragent", which is the instance of routing agent. You can add a method which returns the instance of routing agent at the tcl/lib/ns-mobilenode.tcl.

Node/MobileNode instproc get-ragent {} {
  $self instvar ragent_
  return $ragent_
}

The, you can directly access a routing agent from your tcl script.