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@c PART:  Building Topologies

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@c The below chapters are under the major heading "Building Topologies"

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@c Building Topologies

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@node Building Topologies

@chapter Building Topologies

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* Building a Bus Network Topology::

* Building a Wireless Network Topology::

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@c Building a Bus Network Topology

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@node Building a Bus Network Topology

@section Building a Bus Network Topology

@cindex topology

@cindex bus network topology

In this section we are going to expand our mastery of @command{ns-3} network 

devices and channels to cover an example of a bus network.  @command{Ns-3}

provides a net device and channel we call CSMA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access).

The @command{ns-3} CSMA device models a simple network in the spirit of 

Ethernet.  A real Ethernet uses CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with 

Collision Detection) scheme with exponentially increasing backoff to contend 

for the shared transmission medium.  The @command{ns-3} CSMA device and 

channel models only a subset of this.

Just as we have seen point-to-point topology helper objects when constructing

point-to-point topologies, we will see equivalent CSMA topology helpers in

this section.  The appearance and operation of these helpers should look 

quite familiar to you.

We provide an example script in our @code{examples} directory.  This script

builds on the @code{first.cc} script and adds a CSMA network to the 

point-to-point simulation we've already considered.  Go ahead and open 

@code{examples/second.cc} in your favorite editor.  You will have already seen

enough @command{ns-3} code to understand most of what is going on in this 

example, but we will go over the entire script and examine some of the output.

Just as in the @code{first.cc} example (and in all ns-3 examples) the file

begins with an emacs mode line and some GPL boilerplate.

One thing that can be surprisingly useful is a small bit of ASCII art that

shows a cartoon of the network topology constructed in the example.  You will

find a similar ``drawing'' in most of our examples.

In this case, you can see that we are going to extend our point-to-point

example (the link between the nodes n0 and n1 below) by hanging a bus network

off of the right side.  Notice that this is the default network topology 

since you can actually vary the number of nodes created on the LAN.  If you

set nCsma to one, there will be a total of two nodes on the LAN (CSMA 

channel) --- one required node and one ``extra'' node.  By default there are

thee ``extra'' nodes as seen below:

@verbatim

// Default Network Topology

//

//       10.1.1.0

// n0 -------------- n1   n2   n3   n4

//    point-to-point  |    |    |    |

//                    ================

//                      LAN 10.1.2.0

@end verbatim

The actual code begins by loading module include files just as was done in the

@code{first.cc} example.  Then the ns-3 namespace is @code{used} and a logging

component is defined.  This is all just as it was in @code{first.cc}, so there

is nothing new yet.

@verbatim

  #include "ns3/core-module.h"

  #include "ns3/simulator-module.h"

  #include "ns3/node-module.h"

  #include "ns3/helper-module.h"

  #include "ns3/global-routing-module.h"

  using namespace ns3;

  NS_LOG_COMPONENT_DEFINE ("SecondScriptExample");

@end verbatim

The main program begins by enabling the @code{UdpEchoClientApplication} and

@code{UdpEchoServerApplication} logging components at @code{INFO} level so

we can see some output when we run the example.  This should be entirely 

familiar to you so far.

@verbatim

  int

  main (int argc, char *argv[])

  {

    LogComponentEnable("UdpEchoClientApplication", LOG_LEVEL_INFO);

    LogComponentEnable("UdpEchoServerApplication", LOG_LEVEL_INFO);

@end verbatim

Next, you will see some familiar code that will allow you to change the number

of devices on the CSMA network via command line argument.  We did something

similar when we allowed the number of packets sent to be changed in the section

on command line arguments.

@verbatim

  uint32_t nCsma = 3;

  CommandLine cmd;

  cmd.AddValue ("nCsma", "Number of \"extra\" CSMA nodes/devices", nCsma);

  cmd.Parse (argc,argv);

@end verbatim

The next step is to create two nodes that we will connect via the 

point-to-point link.  The @code{NodeContainer} is used to do this just as was

done in @code{first.cc}.

@verbatim

  NodeContainer p2pNodes;

  p2pNodes.Create (2);

@end verbatim

Next, we delare another @code{NodeContainer} to hold the nodes that will be

part of the bus (CSMA) network.  First, we just instantiate the container

object itself.  

@verbatim

  NodeContainer csmaNodes;

  csmaNodes.Add (p2pNodes.Get (1));

  csmaNodes.Create (nCsma);

@end verbatim

The next line of code @code{Gets} the first node (as in having an index of one)

from the point-to-point node container and adds it to the container of nodes

that will get CSMA devices.  The node in question is going to end up with a 

point-to-point device @emph{and} a CSMA device.  We then create a number of 

``extra'' nodes that compose the remainder of the CSMA network.

The next bit of code should be quite familiar by now.  We instantiate a

@code{PointToPointHelper} and set the associated default attributes so that

we create a five megabit per second transmitter on devices created using the

helper and a two millisecond delay on channels created by the helper.

@verbatim

  PointToPointHelper pointToPoint;

  NetDeviceContainer p2pDevices;

  p2pDevices = pointToPoint.Install (p2pNodes);

@end verbatim

We then instantiate a @code{NetDeviceContainer} to keep track of the 

point-to-point net devices and we @code{Install} devices on the 

point-to-point nodes.

We mentioned above that you were going to see a helper for CSMA devices and

channels, and the next lines introduce them.  The @code{CsmaHelper} works just

like a @code{PointToPointHelper}, but it creates and connects CSMA devices and

channels.

@verbatim

  CsmaHelper csma;

  NetDeviceContainer csmaDevices;

  csmaDevices = csma.Install (csmaNodes);

@end verbatim

Just as we created a @code{NetDeviceContainer} to hold the devices created by

the @code{PointToPointHelper} we create a @code{NetDeviceContainer} to hold 

the devices created by our @code{CsmaHelper}.  We call the @code{Install} 

method of the @code{CsmaHelper} to install the devices into the nodes of the

@code{csmaNodes NodeContainer}.

We now have our nodes, devices and channels created, but we have no protocol

stacks present.  Just as in the @code{first.cc} script, we will use the

@code{InternetStackHelper} to install these stacks.

@verbatim

  InternetStackHelper stack;

  stack.Install (p2pNodes.Get (0));

  stack.Install (csmaNodes);

@end verbatim

Recall that we took one of the nodes from the @code{p2pNodes} container and

added it to the @code{csmaNodes} container.  Thus we only need to install 

the stacks on the remaining @code{p2pNodes} node, and all of the nodes in the

@code{csmaNodes} container to cover all of the nodes in the simulation.

Just as in the @code{first.cc} example script, we are going to use the 

@code{Ipv4AddressHelper} to assign IP addresses to our device interfaces.

First we use the network 10.1.1.0 to create the two addresses needed for our

two point-to-point devices.

@verbatim

  Ipv4AddressHelper address;

  address.SetBase ("10.1.1.0", "255.255.255.0");

  Ipv4InterfaceContainer p2pInterfaces;

  p2pInterfaces = address.Assign (p2pDevices);

@end verbatim

Recall that we save the created interfaces in a container to make it easy to

pull out addressing information later for use in setting up the applications.

We now need to assign IP addresses to our CSMA device interfaces.  The 

operation works just as it did for the point-to-point case, except we now

are performing the operation on a container that has a variable number of 

CSMA devices --- remember we made the number of CSMA devices changeable by 

command line argument.  The CSMA devices will be associated with IP addresses 

from network number 10.1.2.0 in this case, as seen below.

@verbatim

  address.SetBase ("10.1.2.0", "255.255.255.0");

  Ipv4InterfaceContainer csmaInterfaces;

  csmaInterfaces = address.Assign (csmaDevices);

@end verbatim

Now we have a topology built, but we need applications.  This section is

going to be fundamentally similar to the applications section of 

@code{first.cc} but we are going to instantiate the server on one of the 

nodes that has a CSMA node and the client on the node having only a 

point-to-point device.

@verbatim

  ApplicationContainer serverApps = echoServer.Install (csmaNodes.Get (nCsma));

  serverApps.Start (Seconds (1.0));

  serverApps.Stop (Seconds (10.0));

@end verbatim

Recall that the @code{csmaNodes NodeContainer} contains one of the 

nodes created for the point-to-point network and @code{nCsma} ``extra'' nodes. 

What we want to get at is the last of the ``extra'' nodes.  The zeroth entry of

the @code{csmaNodes} container will the the point-to-point node.  The easy

way to think of this, then, is if we create one ``extra'' CSMA node, then it

will be be at index one of the @code{csmaNodes} container.  By induction,

if we create @code{nCsma} ``extra'' nodes the last one will be at index 

@code{nCsma}.  You see this exhibited in the @code{Get} of the first line of 

code.

The client application is set up exactly as we did in the @code{first.cc}

@verbatim

  ApplicationContainer clientApps = echoClient.Install (p2pNodes.Get (0));

  clientApps.Start (Seconds (2.0));

  clientApps.Stop (Seconds (10.0));

@end verbatim

Since we have actually built an internetwork here, we need some form of 

internetwork routing.  @command{Ns-3} provides what we call a global route 

manager to set up the routing tables on nodes.  This route manager has a 

global function that runs though the nodes created for the simulation and does

the hard work of setting up routing for you.  

Basically, what happens is that each node behaves as if it were an OSPF router

that communicates instantly and magically with all other routers behind the

scenes.  Each node generates link advertisements and communicates them 

directly to a global route manager which uses this global information to 

construct the routing tables for each node.  Setting up this form of routing

is a one-liner:

@verbatim

  GlobalRouteManager::PopulateRoutingTables ();

@end verbatim

The remainder of the script should be very familiar to you.  We just enable

pcap tracing, run the simulation and exit the script.  Notice that enabling

pcap tracing using the CSMA helper is done in the same way as for the pcap

tracing with the point-to-point helper.

@verbatim

    PointToPointHelper::EnablePcapAll ("second");

    CsmaHelper::EnablePcapAll ("second");

    Simulator::Run ();

    Simulator::Destroy ();

    return 0;

  }

@end verbatim

In order to run this example, you have to copy the @code{second.cc} example

script into the scratch directory and use Waf to build just as you did with

the @code{first.cc} example.  If you are in the top-level directory of the

repository you would type,

@verbatim

  cp examples/second.cc scratch/

  ./waf

  ./waf --run scratch/second

@end verbatim

Since we have set up the UDP echo applications to log just as we did in 

@code{first.cc}, you will see similar output when you run the script.

@verbatim

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev > ./waf --run scratch/second

  Entering directory `/home/craigdo/repos/ns-3-dev/build'

  Compilation finished successfully

  Sent 1024 bytes to 10.1.2.4

  Received 1024 bytes from 10.1.1.1

  Received 1024 bytes from 10.1.2.4

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev >

@end verbatim

Recall that the first message, @code{Sent 1024 bytes to 10.1.2.4} is the 

UDP echo client sending a packet to the server.  In this case, the server

is on a different network (10.1.2.0).  The second message, @code{Received 1024 

bytes from 10.1.1.1}, is from the UDP echo server, generated when it receives

the echo packet.  The final message, @code{Received 1024 bytes from 10.1.2.4}

is from the echo client, indicating that it has received its echo back from

the server.

If you now go and look in the top level directory, you will find a number of

trace files:

@verbatim

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev > ls *.pcap

  second-0-0.pcap  second-1-1.pcap  second-3-0.pcap

  second-1-0.pcap  second-2-0.pcap  second-4-0.pcap

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev >

@end verbatim

Let's take a moment to look at the naming of these files.  They all have the 

same form, @code{<name>-<node>-<device>.pcap}.  For example, the first file

in the listing is @code{second-0-0.pcap} which is the pcap trace from node 

zero - device zero.  There are no other devices on node zero so this is the

only trace from that node.  

Now look at @code{second-1-0.pcap} and @code{second-1-1.pcap}.  The former is

the pcap trace for device zero on node one and the latter is the trace file 

for device one on node one.  If you refer back to the topology illustrration at

the start of the section, you will see that node one is the node that has

both a point-to-point device and a CSMA device, so we should expect two pcap

traces for that node.

Now, let's follow the echo packet through the internetwork.  First, do a 

tcpdump of the trace file for the leftmost point-to-point node --- node zero.

@verbatim

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev > tcpdump -r second-0-0.pcap -nn -tt

  reading from file second-0-0.pcap, link-type PPP (PPP)

  2.000000 IP 10.1.1.1.49153 > 10.1.2.4.9: UDP, length 1024

  2.007382 IP 10.1.2.4.9 > 10.1.1.1.49153: UDP, length 1024

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev >

@end verbatim

The first line of the dump indicates that the link type is PPP (point-to-point)

which we expect.  You then see the echo packet leaving node zero via the 

device associated with IP address 10.1.1.1 headed for IP address

10.1.2.4 (the rightmost CSMA node).  This packet will move over the 

point-to-point link and be received by the point-to-point net device on node 

one.  Let's take a look:

@verbatim

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev > tcpdump -r second-1-0.pcap -nn -tt

  reading from file second-1-0.pcap, link-type PPP (PPP)

  2.003686 IP 10.1.1.1.49153 > 10.1.2.4.9: UDP, length 1024

  2.003695 IP 10.1.2.4.9 > 10.1.1.1.49153: UDP, length 1024

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev >

@end verbatim

Here we see that the link type is also PPP as we would expect.  You see the

packet from IP address 10.1.1.1 headed toward 10.1.2.4 appear on this 

interface.  Now, internally to this node, the packet will be forwarded to the

CSMA interface and we should see it pop out the other device headed for its

ultimate destination.  Let's then look at second-1-1.pcap and see if its there.

@verbatim

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev > tcpdump -r second-1-1.pcap -nn -tt

  reading from file second-1-1.pcap, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet)

  2.003686 arp who-has 10.1.2.4 (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) tell 10.1.2.1

  2.003687 arp reply 10.1.2.4 is-at 00:00:00:00:00:06

  2.003687 IP 10.1.1.1.49153 > 10.1.2.4.9: UDP, length 1024

  2.003691 arp who-has 10.1.2.1 (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) tell 10.1.2.4

  2.003691 arp reply 10.1.2.1 is-at 00:00:00:00:00:03

  2.003695 IP 10.1.2.4.9 > 10.1.1.1.49153: UDP, length 1024

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev >

@end verbatim

As you can see, the link type is now ``Ethernet.''  Something new has appeared,

though.  The bus network needs @code{ARP}, the Address Resolution Protocol.

The node knows it needs to send the packet to IP address 10.1.2.4, but it

doesn't know the MAC address of the corresponding node.  It broadcasts on the

CSMA network (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) asking for the device that has IP address

10.1.2.4.  In this case, the rightmost node replies saying it is at MAC address

00:00:00:00:00:06.  This exchange is seen in the following lines,

@verbatim

  2.003686 arp who-has 10.1.2.4 (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) tell 10.1.2.1

  2.003687 arp reply 10.1.2.4 is-at 00:00:00:00:00:06

@end verbatim

Then node one, device one goes ahead and sends the echo packet to the UDP echo

server at IP address 10.1.2.4.  We can now look at the pcap trace for the 

echo server,

@verbatim

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev > tcpdump -r second-4-0.pcap -nn -tt

  reading from file second-4-0.pcap, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet)

  2.003686 arp who-has 10.1.2.4 (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) tell 10.1.2.1

  2.003686 arp reply 10.1.2.4 is-at 00:00:00:00:00:06

  2.003690 IP 10.1.1.1.49153 > 10.1.2.4.9: UDP, length 1024

  2.003690 arp who-has 10.1.2.1 (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) tell 10.1.2.4

  2.003692 arp reply 10.1.2.1 is-at 00:00:00:00:00:03

  2.003692 IP 10.1.2.4.9 > 10.1.1.1.49153: UDP, length 1024

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev >

@end verbatim

Again, you see that the link type is ``Ethernet.''  The first two entries are

the ARP exchange we just explained.  The third packet is the echo packet 

being delivered to its final destination.

The echo server turns the packet around and needs to send it back to the echo

client on 10.1.1.1 but it knows that this address is on another network that 

it reaches via IP address 10.1.2.1.  This is because we initialized global

routing and it has figured all of this out for us.  But, the echo server node

doesn't know the MAC address of the first CSMA node, so it has to ARP for it

just like the first CSMA node had to do.  We leave it as an exercise for you

to find the entries corresponding to the packet returning back on its way to

the client (we have already dumped the traces and you can find them in those

tcpdumps above.

Let's take a look at one of the CSMA nodes that wasn't involved in the packet 

exchange:

@verbatim

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev > tcpdump -r second-2-0.pcap -nn -tt

  reading from file second-2-0.pcap, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet)

  2.003686 arp who-has 10.1.2.4 (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) tell 10.1.2.1

  2.003691 arp who-has 10.1.2.1 (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) tell 10.1.2.4

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev >

@end verbatim

You can see that the CSMA channel is a broadcast medium and so all of the 

devices see the ARP requests involved in the packet exchange.  The remaining

pcap trace will be identical to this one.

Finally, recall that we added the ability to control the number of CSMA devices

in the simulation by command line argument.  You can change this argument in

the same way as when we looked at changing the number of packets echoed in the

@code{first.cc} example.  Try setting the number of ``extra'' devices to four:

@verbatim

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev > ./waf --run "scratch/second --nCsma=4"

  Entering directory `/home/craigdo/repos/ns-3-dev/build'

  Compilation finished successfully

  Sent 1024 bytes to 10.1.2.5

  Received 1024 bytes from 10.1.1.1

  Received 1024 bytes from 10.1.2.5

  ~/repos/ns-3-dev >

@end verbatim

Notice that the echo server has now been relocated to the last of the CSMA

nodes, which is 10.1.2.5 instead of the default case, 10.1.2.4.  You can 

increase the number to your hearts content, but remember that you will get a

pcap trace file for every node in the simulation.  One thing you can do to

keep from getting all of those pcap traces with nothing but ARP exchanges in 

them is to be more specific about which nodes and devices you want to trace.

Let's take a look at @code{scratch/second.cc} and add that code enabling us

to be more specific.  The file we provided used the @code{EnablePcapAll} 

methods of the helpers to enable pcap on all devices.  We now want to use the

more specific method, @code{EnablePcap}, which takes a node number and device

number as parameters.  Go ahead and replace the @code{EnablePcapAll} calls 

with the calls below.

@verbatim

  PointToPointHelper::EnablePcap ("second", p2pNodes.Get (0)->GetId (), 0);

  CsmaHelper::EnablePcap ("second", csmaNodes.Get (nCsma)->GetId (), 0);

@end verbatim