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Recent changes in the INET Framework
====================================
INET 3.7.1 (April 2021) - stable
--------------------------------
This release contains compatibility fixes for OMNeT++ 6.0 preview 11,
plus minor bugfixes:
- localPort parameter didn't take effect in TCPAppBase
- use BYPASS for multicast packets to allow unfiltered multicast traffic in IPSec
INET 3.7 (January 2021) - stable
--------------------------------
This release adds an IPsec model, improves on UDPBasicApp, and contains small
bug fixes. It requires OMNeT++ 5.3 or later, or OMNeT++ 6.0 Preview 9 or 10.
IPsec:
The IPsec model implements basic RFC 4301 functionality: Authentication
Header (AH) and Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP). Key exchange protocols
are not model modeled, but instead, security associations (SAs) are statically
configured and remain in effect for the entire duration of the simulation.
The model does not perform actual cryptography. This was an explicit non-goal,
as the purpose of the model is to study the effects of the network overhead of
IPsec. As a consequence, encryption keys, certificates, and other cryptography-
related data do not appear in the model's data structures. However, protocol
overhead and a simple performance model to account for the runtime overhead
of cryptography are included.
Further limitations:
- Transport mode only. Tunnel mode is not supported.
- Multicast traffic is not supported.
- The anti-replay mechanism is not implemented.
- DSCP-based SA selection is not implemented.
UDPBasicApp:
Added sendScript parameter; sendInterval made optional. The change is
backward compatible (existing fingerprints unchanged).
VoIPStream:
Updated for avcodec-7:4.2.4
Other:
Fixed a number of (previously hidden) subtle ownership problems.
INET 3.6.8 (October 2020) - stable
----------------------------------
This release contains a compatibility fix to be able to build INET with
OMNeT++ 6.0 Preview 9. It requires OMNeT++ 5.3 or later.
NOTE: OMNeT++ 6.0 Preview 5-8 will NOT work with this release. Use INET 3.6.7
with those versions or rather upgrade your OMNeT++ installation.
INET 3.6.7 (November 2019) - stable
-----------------------------------
This release contains a compatibility fix to be able to build INET with
OMNeT++ 6.0 Preview 5. It requires OMNeT++ 5.3 or later.
INET 3.6.6 (August 2019) - stable
---------------------------------
This release contains a bug fix for an issue where clang did not export
the typinfo symbols for classes on Windows. This caused link errors on
dependent projets. It requires OMNeT++ 5.3 or later.
General:
- Added NetworkCommunicationFingerprintCalculator, to be able to generate
INET 4 compatible fingerprints that are based on network communication.
INET 3.6.5 (April 2019) - stable
--------------------------------
This release contains minor bug fixes and compatibility fixes for the
OMNeT++ 5.4.1 release and for recent Linux distros. It requires
OMNeT++ 5.3 or later.
General:
- Added missing measurement units for 0 values in NED and INI files
- NED files are now using fully qualified type names
- Added missing doParsimPacking/doParsimUnpacking in L3Address
Ethernet:
- Fixed 'EtherMAC swallows frames when PAUSE is engaged (#391)'
- Fixed 'Cannot abort PAUSE (LFC) before timeout (#390)'
(author: Danushka Menikkumbura)
ieee802.11:
- Fixed ACK frame duration bug where the duration was incorrectly
rounded up in seconds instead of microseconds for data fragment ACKs.
TCP:
- Bugfix: static variables were removed, but remained in header
SCTP:
- Set the DupTsn relative to the localDiffTSN
IPv6:
- Added constructors in AdvPrefix.
Visualizers:
- Removed dependence on ObjectLocatorNode as it was removed in recent
versions of osgEarth
INET 3.6.4 (March 2018) - stable
--------------------------------
This release contains minor bug fixes and compatibility fixes for the
OMNeT++ 5.3 Preview 4 release. It requires OMNeT++ 5.1 or later.
General:
- Changed some module parameters from double to int.
- Corrected memory management issue in radio module.
- common: added intWithUnit() ned function.
Packet printer:
- made it compatible with the new message printer API in OMNeT++ 5.3
INET 3.6.3 (December 2017) - stable
-----------------------------------
This release contains minor bug fixes and compatibility fixes for the final
OMNeT++ 5.3 Preview 1 release. It requires OMNeT++ 5.1 or later.
TCP:
- Fixed TCP/IP Checksum calculation with odd lengths.
SCTP:
- Fixed a retransmission bug where the transmission counter was not
advanced when the data was retransmitted due to timeout.
- Fixed a bug when fast recovery was active and the cumulative TSN
advanced, the miss indications were not increased.
Packetdrill:
- The counting of Gap Reports was fixed.
- Added a new test to test fast Retransmissions.
Ieee802154NarrowbandScalarRadio:
- The bandwidth was not correctly claculated, leading to incorrect channel allocation
- The PHY header was calculated wrong
APSKScalarReceiver:
- Fixed sensitivity bug in APSKScalarReceiver found by Tobias Thiel
INET 3.6.2 (October 2017) - stable
----------------------------------
This release contains minor bug fixes and compatibility fixes for the final
OMNeT++ 5.2 release. It requires OMNeT++ 5.1 or later.
- Tcp: Fixed incorrect connection pointer in rexmitQueue.
- Edcaf: Fixed aifs calculation for customised aifsn.
- Visualization: parameter rename
- inet_featuretool: Removed warning when treating a missing feature in the state files as default.
- Updated showcases and tutorials.
- Various fixes to eliminate warnings on clang 4 and gcc 7.x.
INET 3.6.1 (July 2017) - stable
-------------------------------
This release contains minor compatibility fixes. It requires OMNeT++ 5.1 or later.
- Minor compatibility fix to work with OMNeT++ 5.2 Preview 1
- Turned on the parallel build option in the IDE project file.
INET-3.6.0 (June 2017) - stable
-------------------------------
This release contains some important new features, several bug fixes, and a few
minor enhancements. It requires OMNeT++ 5.1 or later.
Highlights in this release:
- On Windows, INET is no longer using the auto-import feature of the linker, because
it generated more than 65536 symbols. Dependent projects crashed because of this.
All INET APIs now should be prefixed with INET_API macro. (fixes #257)
- The makefile now generates separate precompiled header for debug and release mode.
This is required to be able to quicly switch between release and debug mode in the IDE.
- The IEEE 802.11 MAC model has been extended with several new components. The
implementation is entirely based on the standard IEEE 802.11™-2012 Part 11:
Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications.
The new architecture is designed to be modular to facilitate experimenting
with new policies, features and algorithms within the MAC layer. Users can
easily replace individual components with their own implementations. Policies,
which most likely to be experimented with, are extracted into their own modules.
The new model has the following replaceable built-in policies:
- ACK policy
- RTS/CTS policy
- Originator and recipient block ACK agreement policies
- MSDU aggregation policy
- Fragmentation policy
The new model also separates the following components:
- Coordination functions
- Channel access methods
- MAC data services
- Aggregation and deaggregation
- Fragmentation and defragmentation
- Block ACK agreements and reordering
- Frame exchange sequences
- Duplicate removal
- Rate selection
- Rate control
- Protection mechanisms
- Recovery procedure
- Contention
- Frame queues
- TX/RX
There are several enhancements and new features to the previous version, the
most notable are frame exchange sequences, block acknowledgement, and MSDU
aggregation.
The new version was thoroughly tested against the old one using fingerprint
tests. The tests ensure that the new version doesn't introduce any regression.
In fact, the tests brought up a few problems in the old implementation that
were fixed in the new one.
- The power model has been extended with support for charge/current based models
as opposed to the existing energy/power based ones. A new energy management
component has also been added to separate monitoring and controlling of energy
consumers and generators from the rest of the model.
- New visualizers has been added to display packet drops and link breaks, data
contained in interface tables, routes stored in routing tables, queues filled
with packets, residual capacity of energy storages, and transport connections
between network nodes. The new visualizers are also added to the already existing
integrated ones. Note: many features that work with the 2D visualizers currently
don't work with the 3D OSG visualizers.
- Added new features for various tutorials and showcases.
INET-3.5.0 (February 2017) - stable
-----------------------------------
This release contains mostly bug fixes and compatibility changes. It requires
OMNeT++ 5.1. Earlier versions of OMNeT++ are *not* compatible.
Highlights in this release:
Build:
- The build process is now using precompiled headers. This can speed up the
build process considerably.
- Feature macros (WITH_*) that show the enablement of features are now placed
into a header file (src/inet/features.h) instead of passed on the command line.
The build process adds the WITH_OSG and WITH_OSGEARTH macro to the opp_defines.h
file when WITH_OSG/WITH_OSGEARTH is set to yes. This allows the IDE to properly
highlight/disable the appropriate code fragments.
- 64-bit build is now supported on Windows.
Visualizers:
- Added a Plot figure (see InstrumentsExample).
DHCP:
- DHCP fixes.
- DHCP can now activated in a Router by setting hasDHCP=true
- Added new WirelessNetWith2DHCP example.
Radio:
- Added two-ray interference model (TwoRayInterference) as a pathoss model.
SCTP:
- Added StreamReconfig support for SCTP (by Irene Ruengeler)
GPSR:
- Allow to specify the interface name in a parameter instead of
using a hardcoded interface name.
Fixes:
- Small fixes in SimpleEnergyStorage and during Antenna initialization
- Calling IPv6RoutingTable::getInterfaceByAddress(const L3Address& address) or
findGpsrOptionFromNetworkDatagram() function caused infinite recursion.
- Radio: Fixed FreeSpacePathLoss bug in the loss formula for alpha != 2 case,
reported by Benjamin Sliwa.
- SimpleVoIPServer now resolves destAddress at startTime (instead
of initialization)
- Ieee8021dRelay: fixed a null pointer crash
- StaticConcentricMobility: fixed a rounding issue
- ICMP: fixed "icmp error answer to a fragmented udp packet" problem
- ICMP: fixing bug #64: Buffer Overflow Error
- AODV: no longer causes assertion failure when RREP-ACK arrived after a timeout
INET-3.4.0 (June 2016) - stable
-------------------------------
This INET release requires OMNeT++ 5.0. This is due to the new visualization
feature which uses the Canvas and OSG APIs introduced in OMNeT++ 5.0. Most
other parts of the codebase still builds with OMNeT++ 4.6.
Highlights is this release:
Tutorials:
- Added a Wireless Tutorial (tutorials/wireless). The tutorial consists of
several simulation models of increasing complexity, demonstrating the INET
architecture and features related to wireless communication networks. The
models are accompanied by a text which explains each step, complete with
screenshots and recorded animations.
- Added draft for a visualization tutorial.
Visualizers:
- Added a new 'visualizer' folder under 'src' that contains visualizer modules.
The current visualizer modules can display the scene (optionally with osgEarth),
the network nodes (optionally with 3D models), physical objects in
the physical environment, node mobility along with movement trail, discovered
network connectivity, discovered network routes, ongoing transmissions,
ongoing receptions, propagating radio signals, and statistics.
The visualizer modules are intentionally kept separate from network protocol
models. They are responsible for displaying various aspects of the simulation
in a graphical user interface. The most common mechanism they use is looking
up other modules and/or subscribing to the signals they emit. The visualizer
modules are compatible with both Tkenv and Qtenv. In Qtenv they are able to
display on both a 2D canvas and a 3D OSG scene.
Instrument figures:
- Implemented a facility that allows one to display various gauges, meters
and indicators in the network graphics that take their inputs from signals.
The "gadgets" themselves are figures that are added into the network using
@figure properties, and they are driven by signals via @statistic properties,
using a special result recorder ("figure") that sets the value in the target
figure. Figure types are: gauge, linearGauge, progressMeter, thermometer,
counter, indicatorLabel/indicatorText, and indexedImage. Their sources
are in src/inet/common/figures.
There is a demo in examples/visualization/instruments, and an additional
usage example in the Wireless Tutorial (tutorials/wireless).
MAC protocols:
- Added CsmaCaMac, a simple CSMA/CA-based MAC protocol with optional
acknowledgements and a retry mechanism. With the appropriate settings,
it can approximate basic 802.11b ad-hoc mode operation. The code is
based on the original Ieee80211Mac (802.11b) from 2006.
- IdealMac: Changed out-of-band ACKs to be optional.
- LMAC, BMAC, CSMA: Fixed handling of frames with bit errors.
- WirelessNic: added optional classifier submodule
- Ieee80211Mac: Resurrected link break signal for giving up a transmission.
Radio:
- The physical environment model has been extended to include a ground model.
Ground models need to implement the IGround interface that currently
contains a getElevation() method. A very simple implementation, FlatGround
is also provided.
- The TwoRayGroundReflection model has been updated to use the ground model
of the physical environment.
- Added packetReceivedFromUpper and packetSentToUpper signals.
Mobility:
- Mobility models now use the initialZ parameter even if position is
initialized from the display string.
- Added VehicleMobility that simulates turning at waypoints.
- Now all mobile nodes face (i.e. set the orientation to) the direction of
movement. This affects radio reception when direction antenna is used.
Physical enviromment:
- Added geographic coordinate system support.
- TracingObstacleLoss renamed to DielectricObstacleLoss.
Misc:
- Added ApplicationPacket that can be used as generic application payload.
Currently it contains a sequence number.
- UDPBasicApp/UDPSink: changed to use ApplicationPacket, and record
received packet sequence numbers
- RelayUnit: Added packetReceivedFromLowerSignal and packetSentToLowerSignal signals.
- AODV: Removed AODV-RERR messages for inactive routes.
- Applications: Added throughput statistic to some applications.
- IPv4: Added sentTo/receivedFrom upper/lower signals.
- Common: Added average forest "material".
- Common: Added throughput result filter.
Build:
- Added a top level 'doc' target to build all INET documentation in a single step
- Added project feature tests (tests/features)
INET-3.3.0 (June 2016) - stable
-------------------------------
This release requires OMNeT++ 4.6 or 5.0.
Build:
- Removed unnecessary -pINET from the makemake options. This caused linking
issues on Windows when 'clang' was used as a compiler. (the INET_API
macros are needed only for Visual C++)
- In makefrag, use inet_featuretool instead of scanning the compiler options
to detect the enablement of the VoIPStream and NSC features
- Fix: TCP_lwip did not compile when using the command-line make.
- Examples: 'run' script can now take parameters containing spaces (as long as
they are quoted properly)
SCTP:
- Packetdrill: Added SCTP support and socket options (by Irene Ruengeler)
- SCTP: added support for the SCTP_ACCEPT command (by Irene Ruengeler)
Physical layer:
- Added IdealObstacleLoss. This obstacle loss model determines power loss by
checking if there is any obstructing physical object along the straight
propagation path. The result is either total power loss if there was
such an object or no loss at all if there wasn't.
MANET:
- The "MANET Routing" feature (a collection of routing protocols ported
into INET from other projects) was removed from the source tree. The
removed MANET routing algorithms are still available in the INETMANET
fork of INET (https://github.com/aarizaq/inetmanet-2.0). INET now contains
the following natively implemented MANET routing protocols: AODV, DYMO, GPSR.
Fixes:
- IPv4: bug fix in IPv4 packet deserialization
- Ieee802.11: bug fix in 802.11 management code (set TID only for QoS data
frames)
- TelnetApp: bug fix (cancel pending timers correctly)
- IPv4NetworkConfigurator: bug fix: links were not properly detected by the
configurator when nodes connected to a switch were defined after the switch
in the NED file
- IPv6: double delete fixed
- IPv4RoutingTable: fix: only interfaces with the BROADCAST flag set have
local broadcast addresses
- AODV: fix: AODV stopped with an error if an ICMP error packet was received
(ICMP packets are now accepted and silently dropped)
- examples: removed obsolete fingerprints.ini files
Ethernet:
- Added a separate EtherPhyFrame class. Motivation: there was no obvious way
looking at an EtherFrame to tell whether it already contains preamble+SFD
or not.
- Change: When modeling the decapsulation from PHY header (subtracting preamble
and SFD lengths), padding to minimum frame size was also undone. This is
no longer done.
- EtherIFG renamed to EtherFilledIFG
- Catch duplex-halfduplex misconfiguration and throw error
- Fix incorrect byte counting during burst
- Serializer: adapted to the introduction of EtherPhyFrame
- Serializer: fix: CRC was in wrong byte order
- Serializer: fix: length field contained incorrect value (size of frame
instead of size of payload)
INET-3.2.4 (April 2016) - stable
--------------------------------
This is a minor maintenance release that requires either OMNeT++ 4.6,
or 5.0. (Earlier test versions of OMNeT++ will not work.)
Changes:
- build: updated inet_featuretool (the same like the opp_featuretool in OMNeT++ 5.0)
- minor fixes to make it build under both OMNeT++ 4.6 and 5.0
INET-3.2.3 (March 2016) - Stable
--------------------------------
This is a minor maintenance release that requires either OMNeT++ 4.6,
or 5.0rc or later. (Earlier test versions of OMNeT++ will not work.)
Changes:
- build: updated inet_featuretool (the same like the opp_featuretool in OMNeT++ 5.0 rc)
- several fixes to make it compatible with both OMNeT++ 4.6 and 5.0
- smoke and fingerprint tests are running on both OMNeT++ 4.6 and 5.0
- some variable renames and fixes in ieee802.11
INET-3.2.1 (January 2016) - Stable
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Changes:
- 802.11 MAC model: EDCA, rate control crashes fixed
- Radio: Fixed handling of abort reception/transmission.
- Added missing INET_API defines
- Physical layer: Fixed memory issues detected by valgrind
INET-3.2 (December 2015) - Stable
---------------------------------
This release requires either OMNeT++ 4.6, or 5.0b3 or later. (Earlier test
versions of OMNeT++ will not work.)
IEEE 802.11 MAC model:
- After further refinement, new features, several bugfixes and validation
testing, the new MAC model was made the default one. It was also renamed
from Ieee80211NewMac to Ieee80211Mac, while the old Ieee80211Mac became
Ieee80211OldMac.
- Improvements on the new MAC model include:
* Added fragmentation support;
* Added Onoe, ARF, AARF rate control algorithms;
* Implemented early Ack timeout;
- Validation: Several validation tests were run against the ns-3 Wifi model.
In the tested configurations, it was ensured that new Mac model behaves
*exactly* as the ns-3 model (that is, timestamped packet logs match exactly).
Discrepancies were resolved with bugfixes in our code, in the ns-3 code,
or both. Bugs found in ns-3 were reported in the ns-3 bugtracker.
See tests/misc/ns3.
Physical layer:
- Added support for the simulation of separate signal parts in the Radio.
The preamble, header and data parts can be optionally simulated
separately. This results in a more accurate simulation, because a
reception may be aborted before the data part is received.
- Added separate preambleDuration parameters to each radio transmitter for more
flexible configuration.
- Added Ieee80211IdealRadio, an ideal channel model (aka unit disc radio)
suitable for use with Ieee80211Mac.
Fixes:
- Fixed PER computation in NetworkConfiguratorBase.
- Fixed missing byte length in AODV and added control packet length configuration.
- RTT initialization was fixed in TCP (Vegas, Westwood) because the original
value caused "out of range" error with the overflow check introduced in
OMNeT++ 5.0b3.
- BPDU packet length was incorrectly set sometimes in the 802.1d model.
- Fixed incorrect sign of lastSpeed in some mobility models.
- The VoIPStream app has been updated to work with the ffmpeg version
distributed in Ubuntu 15.10
- Added some INET_API macros to compile properly on Windows.
- QoSClassifier example no longer needs the 802.11 project feature.
INET-3.1.1 (October 2015) - Stable
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Changes:
- Fixed build problem on Windows
INET-3.1.0 (October 2015) - Stable
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This release requires OMNeT++ 4.6 or later. In addition to several bug fixes,
it features the following additions compared to INET-3.0:
1. A modular and extensible new 802.11 MAC model.
It replaces the existing monolithic 802.11 MAC model that has become
increasingly difficult to maintain and extend over the years. The new MAC
has a modular design, where components can be swapped in and out. Concepts
such as contention-based channel access, frame exchange sequences, EDCA
queues, aggregation, fragmentation, duplicate detection, block acknow-
ledgement, frame rate selection, automatic rate selection, etc would
be expressed as self-contained C++ classes that implement abstract
interfaces and (may) have multiple implementations.
This kind of modular design also favours the open-source development model,
because abstract interfaces give contributors better cues on where to start
implementing a new feature, and new classes can be more readily accepted
into the codebase because changes to existing code (and thus the risk of
introducing new bugs) can be minimized.
In this initial form, it has roughly the same set of 802.11 features as the
old Ieee80211Mac module: basic DCF and EDCA, with the channel access and
some more parameters being configurable.
For now, the old Ieee80211Mac is still the default one for simulations.
To switch to using the new one, add the following line to your omnetpp.ini:
**.macType = "Ieee80211CompatibleNewMac"
Ieee80211CompatibleNewMac is a wrapper around Ieee80211NewMac to make its
parameterization similar to the old MAC.
Note that the new MAC is a compound module. You can double-click on the mac
submodule (in Tkenv) and expore its internals.
See the ChangeLog in src/inet/linklayer/ieee80211/newmac/ for more
information. The same folder also contains a presentation about the
architecture of the new MAC, as it was presented at the 2nd OMNeT++
Community Summit in September 2015 (see http://summit.omnetpp.org).
2. Packetdrill. This is a port of Google's Packetdrill testing tool into
the INET Framework.
Google released the script-based Packetdrill tool in 2013. It allows one
to test transport protocols like UDP and TCP on Linux and BSD-based
operating systems. Scripts define test cases that inject packets to the
protocol implementation under test, perform operations using the API
controlling the transport protocol, and verify the sending of packets, all
at specified times. The ported version provides a simple and powerful
method of testing transport protocols implemented in INET.
Packetdrill has been contributed by Irene Rungeler and Michael Tuexen at
FH Muenster. Packetdrill has been presented at the 2nd OMNeT++ Community
Summit in September 2015; find the paper and presentation slides
at http://summit.omnetpp.org.
3. Manet protocols in inet.routing.extras package are now disabled by default.
You can still enable the MANET feature manually or you can use INETMANET
(a fork of INET) which contains a more up to date codebase for these protocols.
4. Changes and bug fixes in the (old) 802.11 MAC:
- The default lot time was not always correctly chosen for the configured
mode (modulation and coding scheme).
- Change maxQueueSize's meaning to per AC queue. Before, maxQueueSize
referred to the total of the AC queue lengths, which could cause starvation
of higher priority queues (see ChangeLog for more info.)
- Removed external queue support, that is, the mgmt submodule in the Nic
no longer serves as a passive queue for the MAC.
INET-3.0.0 (June 2015) - Stable
-------------------------------
This release requires OMNeT++ 4.6 or later. There are numerous breaking changes
since the latest stable version (2.6). Please read this file carefully and
see the ChangeLog files in the source for more details.
Nodes:
- Modules that represent a "node" at network level should be tagged with
@networkNode property instead of @node. (The @node property name was
too generic.) The INode module interface was renamed to INetworkNode, too.
Applications:
- The functionality of PingTestApp was merged into PingApp and PingTestApp
was removed.
Network Layer:
- Refactored IPv4/IPv6 options to use TLVOptions structure.
INET-2.99.1 (May 2015) - Development
------------------------------------
This release is the last development snapshot of the upcoming INET-3.0 version.
The highlights of this release are:
1. Includes a new packet/bit/symbol level physical layer model for the 802.11
OFDM PHY according to the IEEE 802.11-2012 standard, and a hypothetical
generic packet/bit/symbol level APSK physical layer model for further
experimentation. The new implementations include forward error correction
encoding/decoding, scrambling/descrambling, interleaving/deinterleaving, and
modulation/demodulation.
2. Contains fixes for more than 300 defects found by Coverity, an online C++
static code analysis tool. The reported Defect Density is decreased to
0.5/kLoC which is considered a result. You can find the detailed results at
https://scan.coverity.com/projects/3472
3. Contains several other memory leak and memory management fixes reported by
valgrind memcheck.
4. Modernizes C++ source code using new C++11 features such as nullptr, auto
types, range loop, override, etc.
Read on for further details.
All components:
- Replaced all variants of findModuleWherever calls with module parameters,
because their behavior is non-predictable and less composable.
- Replaced most getParentModule calls with module parameters to make modules
less dependent on their context, and thus more reusable.
- Replaced UnimplementedModule and all related *_None modules with calls to
firstAvailableOrEmpty NED function, and changed affected submodules to be
present conditionally.
- Moved interface classes under contract subdirectories. Moved base classes
under base subdirectories.
- Introduced a new script called 'inet_featuretool' in the root folder of the
project that allows listing/enabling/disabling specific features from the
command line. Use 'inet_featuretool -h' for further info.
The 'make makefiles' command now uses this tool to extract the required
command line options to generate the makefile. This means that after
enabling/disabling a feature you always have to invoke 'make makefiles'
to regenerate the makefile based on the new feature enablement state.
Nodes:
- All "node type" modules implement the INode module interface so it is now
possible to create networks (using the <"actualNodeType"> like INode construct)
where the actual node type can be configured from an ini file.
Emulation:
- Network Emulation feature no longer depends on OMNeT++ to detect the presence
of PCAP. Instead the feature can be turned on/off by the user.
Common:
- Added create-module and delete-module commands to ScenarioManager.
- New macros in INETDefs.h to test INET version: INET_VERSION (format: 0xAABB
where AA is the major while BB is the minor version in hex) and
INET_PATCH_LEVEL (format: 0xCC is the patch level in hex).
- On Linux, specifying --valgrind as the first argument for the opp_run script
(or a run script in the examples folder) will start the simulation using the
'valgrind' memory profiler.
- Added a reusable HeatMapFigure and a GaugeFigure.
- Added a reusable DelayedInitializer to support static member initialization
without having to worry about the initialization order.
- Renamed ByteArrayMessage to RawPacket.
Environment:
- Added isometric view angles to physical environment visualization.
- Added class and module interfaces to physical environment.
Mobility:
- Added a new StaticConcentricMobility similar to StaticGridMobility that places
nodes on concentric circles.
- Removed TracCI and TraCIScenarioManager because these modules are maintained
in the Veins framework.
Serializer:
- Refactored packet serializer classes to use a safe buffer class to read and
write binary data. This allows parsing incorrect binary representations without
runtime errors required by bit precise physical layer models.
- Refactored recursion in serializers to be extensible with new packet formats
without modifying existing code.
- Fixed a number of packet length bugs and inconsistencies between serialized
and non-serialized forms.
Application:
- Merged NetPerfMeter application from the master branch added by Thomas Dreibholz.
PCAP:
- Allow flushing the pcapFile after each write to ensure that all packets are
captured in case of a crash.
Transport Layer:
- Added ITransportPacket interface to TCPSegment, UDPPacket, and SCTPMessage.
It allows generic handling of transport packets.
SCTP:
- Added fragPoint parameter to limit the size of fragments.
- After the handshake only send heartbeats on unconfirmed paths.
- Fixed close command handling, i.e. stop reading when the command is sent.
- Handle SACK and NR_SACK separately and use getByteLength instead of getBitLength.
- Fixed several bugs.
TCP:
- Refactored and cleaned up TCP header options.
- Fixed scaling window bug (Martin Becke).
Network Layer:
- Factored out the network topology extraction algorithm from IPv4NetworkConfigurator
into a base class.
- Added support to IPv4NetworkConfigurator for computing wireless shortest path
based on a simple packet error rate estimation.
- Added netmaskRoutes parameter to IPv4RoutingTable to control whether netmask
routes are maintained or not.
- Added useAdminDist parameter to IPv4RoutingTable to enable/disable the use
of Cisco specific routing entry extension (disabled by default).
- Added IGMPv3 implementation (the orinal code came from the ANSA project).
It has been almost fully rewritten and extended by Tamas Borbely.
Routing:
- Added PIM-DM and PIM-SM implementation. The original codebase (from the ANSA project
http://nes.fit.vutbr.cz/ansa) has been extensively reviewed, refactored and
extended by Tamas Borbely.
Configurator:
- Refactored supported metrics (hopCount, delay, dataRate, errorRate) and related
parameters in IPv4NetworkConfigurator.
- Added autoroute XML configuration element to IPv4NetworkConfigurator. It provides
parameters for the automatic route discovery. The autoroute element determines
the set of routing tables that will be modified, the set of destinations for
which the shortest path will be computed, the used metric and the cost for nodes
and links.
Link layer:
- Added TUN/TAP virtual network interfaces thanks to Irene Ruengeler. This kind
of interfaces send/receive packets to/from TUN applications.
- Updated the 802.11 MAC implementation to use the new 802.11 mode descriptors.
- Replaced the old 802.11 operational mode and modulation descriptor classes.
This change modifies the fingerprint of a few simulations, because the header
length was computed incorrectly.
- Changed the 802.11 MAC to use asynchronous commands to set the radio mode.
- Updated the 802.11 MAC state machine diagram (graphviz) to reflect the current
state of the implementation.
- Added safety guard to the 802.11 MAC against recursively calling handleWithFSM.
- Fixed packet order in transmissionQueue.
- Renamed getNetworkInterfaceModule to getInterfaceModule in InterfaceEntry.
- Improved response time on external interfaces. On Linux cSocketScheduler is now
using immediate mode to reduce the CPU usage while still maintaining a fast
sub millisec response time (Artur Scussel). On Windows and MAC OS X the polling
interval was reduced to improve the response time.
- Added support for sending NF_LINK_BREAK signal from BMAC and CSMA. This is
required for certain routing protocols (i.e. AODV) to function properly.
- Extended Ethernet macs accept raw packet
Physical layer:
- Extended the physical layer contract interfaces for layered implementations.
- Added signal representations for packet domain, bit domain, symbol domain,
sample domain and analog domain, and also added contracts for the processing
components in all of these domains.
- Added a detailed 802.11 OFDM physical layer implementation that supports
packet-level, bit-level, and symbol-level simulations in compliant, and also
in freely configurable non-compliant operational modes.
- Replaced the old 802.11 operational mode and modulation descriptor classes.
The new classes are more detailed and more complete implementations. They
supports both the flat and the layered physical layer models and provide PHY
characteristics. The implemented 802.11 modes are: DSSS, HR-DSSS, FHSS, IR,
OFDM, ERP-OFDM.
- Added IEEE 802.11 High Throughput mode descriptor. This mode is defined in
Clause 20. High Throughput (HT) PHY specification in the IEEE 802.11-2012
specification. The new HT mode makes available the Wifi n modes in the
Ieee80211ModeSet.
- Added a simple hypothetical APSK physical layer implementation that supports
packet-level, bit-level, and symbol-level simulations with widely configurable
bit-domain and symbol-domain parameters.
- Consistently moved packet level and bit level implementations into separate
subdirectories throughout the physical layer.
- Added a generic convolutional encoder/decoder, a generic additive
scrambler/descrambler, and a 802.11 specific interleaver/deinterleaver.
- Added a separate modulations folder that contains descriptor classes for
various keying techniques such as BPSK, QPSK, QAM16, QAM64, QAM256, MQAM,
DBPSK, DQPSK, MASK, MFSK, MPSK, DSSS-OQPSK-16, etc.
- Reimplemented the computation of BER and SER based on the SNIR for the QAM-like
modulations according to wikipedia.
- Added a special IntervalTree cache for efficiently computing arrival intervals
for transmissions. This change drastically increases the physical layer
performance for large networks with lots of ongoing transmissions.
- Refactored the radio medium model to support the optional representation of
PHY frames for the layered physical layer models.
- Refactored the medium analog model to simultaneously support the new layered
and the already existing flat radio signal models.
- Refactored the existing 802.11 statistical error models to use the new
operation mode descriptors.
- Extracted the BER table based 802.11 statistical error model into a separate
class. This change modifies the fingerprint of simulations that use this
error model.
- Added a new detailed 802.11 error model that computes erroneous packet
domain, bit domain or symbol domain signal representations.
- Added 802.11 OFDM PHY frame serializer.
- Extracted separate CommunicationCache classes from RadioMedium.
- Extracted separate CommunicationLog class from RadioMedium.
- Extracted a separate MediumLimitCache module from RadioMedium.
- Extracted a separate MediumVisualizer module from RadioMedium.
- Added optional recent communication heat map to MediumVisualizer.
- Renamed radio control info classes to TransmissionRequest and ReceptionIndication.
- Added Ieee80211TransmissionRequest with an optional IIeee80211Mode parameter
to allow the mac module to determine the exact physical layer operational mode.
- Added CosineAntenna and ParabolicAntenna.
- Added basic antenna array support to be used with 802.11 HT modes.
- Added arrival parameter to computeReceptionPower. Added snir parameter to
computeIsReceptionSuccessful. Added snir parameter to computeReceptionDecision.
- Added level parameter to printToStream function to better support logging.
- Fixed the indefinite heap growth bug in the RadioMedium.
Tests:
- Added separate automated tests for convolutional encoding/decoding,
interleaving/deinterleaving, scrambling/descrambling, modulation/demodulation
and various combinations.
Examples:
- Added a new detailed 802.11 OFDM radio example that supports configurable
packet-level, bit-level, and symbol-level simulations for model verification.
- Also added a simple hypothetical APSK radio example that supports configurable
packet-level, bit-level, and symbol-level simulations for model verification.
- Added a work in progress Wireless tutorial in the tutorials/wireless folder.
INET-2.99.0 (November 2014) - Development
-----------------------------------------
This release is a snapshot of the development that has begun in early 2013, and
will culminate in the release of INET-3.0. The code is work in progress, which
means all details may still change until 3.0 is reached.
This release requires OMNeT++ 4.6 or later.
The highlights of this release are:
1. Network layer refactoring that allows higher layer protocols (including
routing protocols) to be written in a network protocol agnostic manner.
2. A new physical layer model that builds upon the INET and MiXiM physical
layers, and brings them to new heights. Design goals were extreme modularity,
extensibility, the ability to support (and easily switch between) various
levels of detail, and the ability to add support for exploiting various
pieces of parallel hardware.
3. Extensive refactoring aimed at improving code quality. It includes
directory restructuring, code formatting, refactoring of init stages and
publish-subscribe communication, and more.
Read on for further details.