In this project, we investigate the design space for a mobile network architecture to enable electronic devices in vehicles to communicate with an internetwork such as the global Internet.
It has to be determined if Mobile IP can be used as starting point for a network protocol that allows transparent communication between a small network of interacting mobile hosts (i.e. the different network enabled devices used in a car) and the Internet. A handover between two wireless communication providers can be predicted by using information of the car navigation system about current location, destination and the anticipated route as well as information about the coverage areas of the wireless service providers. By making these informations available to higher level applications and the home agent, the quality of service of the applications can be increased.
The simulation results are published as an ICSI Technical Report (TR-00-009). In addition, the report documents the necessary extensions to ns as well as tools for visualization and scenario generation. The scenario files used for the report and the scripts to generate the graphs are also available. (Note that these scripts were written for an older version of ns that does not support multiple wireless channels. Working scripts and an example scenario for the current version can be found on the extension webpage.)
Slides for a very basic overview presentation of the ns Network
Simulator are available in gzipped postscript and with 2 slides per page. The
corresponding ns simulation scripts can be found here.