<font face="Arial" size="2"><br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Robert Withrow <<a href="mailto:bwithrow@nortel.com">bwithrow@nortel.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><br>I fear that in a proactive protocol, the overhead in a dense network
will also grow very fast. <span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"> </font></span></div>
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</div><div dir="ltr"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Is there any dirt-simple, rough-and-ready way to simulate these
things in such a away one can get a good first-level approximation of what the
results might be using such a protocol? In wireless it seems like theory
and practices are more divergent in practice than they are in theory. If
an afternoon of effort could produce some kind of simulation, it might be easier
to hack and test than to theorize and argue...
;-)</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>As long as we agree that simulation is something in between reality and
theory. ;-) there are modules for NS2, for AODV and OLSR. But If I
understood correctly <font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="nfakPe">Osama</span>
Aboul-Magd would be running simulations with another tool (I
was kicked off our last teleconference two times, so maybe I missed
something, I apologize if so).<br><br>--<br>Ricardo<br>
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