Configuring and working with NetTopo Simulator in Eclipse Kepler

Prerequisites:

The system should have either Java 6.0 or higher (i.e., both the JDK and JRE need to be installed), and the JAVA_HOME path should be set in the System variables.  

Configuration Procedure

Step 1:  Download and extract the Eclipse Kepler for JAVA by clicking here.

Step 2: Download Java3D and install in the Java installation directory by clicking here

Step 3:  Extract the Eclipse to C: Drive and run the Eclipse IDE.

Step 4:  Create CVS Project

               4.1 File -> New -> Project -> Project from CVS

               4.2  Set Host -> nettopo.cvs.sourceforge.net

                             Repository Path -> /cvsroot/nettopo/

                             User -> anonymous 

                             Password -> No password required (empty)

                             Connection type -> pserver

                             Port -> Use default port

                             click Next

              

                            

                   4.3  Project name -> NetTopo

 Step 5: Setting up Ant build and run

               

               5.1  In Window menu, select Preferences -> Ant -> Runtime

                   5.2  Select Ant Home Entries and Click on Add External Jar Files

                    

                   select

                  C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0\lib\tools.jar

                  C:\Program Files\Java\Java3D\1.5.2\lib\ext\j3dutils.jar

                  C:\Program Files\Java\Java3D\1.5.2\lib\ext\j3dcore.jar

                  C:\Program Files\Java\Java3D\1.5.2\lib\ext\vecmath.jar

                 and save the Entries.

Building and Running the NetTopo Project

Step 6:  In Run menu select Run Configurations 

               Project: NetTopo

               Main class: org.deri.nettopo.app.NetTopoApp

Step 7: In (X) argument tab enter the following under VM arguments

                -Djava.library.path=bin

Step 8: In the Package Explorer select NetTopo project and right click

              Run As -> Java Application -> NetTopo Application

            

                   

Using AVRORA simulator with TinyOS

AVRORA is a popular AVR Simulation and analysis framework for simulating the programs developed for AVR micro controllers. This tool can be used to simulate the programs written in TinyOS environment with little modifications. This post explains how TinyOS programs can be simulated using AVRORA.

This was tested in UBUNTU 12.04 OS environment.

Save the files downloaded from the following steps to a folder. In my system it is
/home/prv/avrora

Step 1: Download the converter from http://compilers.cs.ucla.edu/avrora/jars/avrora-beta-1.7.091.jar

Step 2: Rename the downloaded file as avrora.jar

Step 3: Download the converter.sh file from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8u5Jm1ly3NYNm41UEU0ZjdzYkU/view?usp=sharing

Step 4: Open the bashrc file
            gedit ~./bashrc
            and add the following lines at the end of the file.

alias avrora='java -jar /home/prv/avrora/avrora.jar'
alias convert-avrora='sh /home/prv/avrora/converter.sh'

Step 5: Save the file and close all the consoles opened.

Now, to test the AVRORA setup, run any application programmed in TinyOS.

For example, go to the folder Blinks available in /opt/tinyos-2.1.2/tos/apps.

compile the program

make mica2

it creates a build folder in which you will find micaz2 sub folder. Move to it.
In micaz2 folder there exists a main.exe file. This file is the main file consists of  application and TinyOS environment.

convert it into avrora environment as follows

convert-avrora main.exe blink.od

Now, run the avrora

avrora -seconds=5.0 -platform=mica2 blink.od

This command runs the blink application for one sensor node. To do the same for multiple nodes use the following command

avrora -simulation=sensor-network -seconds=10.0 -nodecount=2 blink.od

The screen shot after running the command

avrora -simulation=sensor-network -seconds=2.0 -nodecount=1 blink.od

is as follows

References

[1] http://compilers.cs.ucla.edu/avrora/
[2] http://mythicalcomputer.blogspot.in

Installing ns-2.35 in UBUNTU operating system

Step 1: open the command prompt Ctrl + Alt + T
Step 2: In the command prompt do the following
  $ sudo apt-get update
  $ sudo apt-get upgrade (this is optional)
  $  sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev perl xgraph libxt-dev  
   libx11-dev libxmu-dev    
Step 3: Download the ns allinone tar file to home folder (ex. home/prv/)
$ tar -xvzf /home/prv/Documents/ns-allinone-2.35.tar.gz
$ cd ns-allinone-2.35
prv@prv:~ns-allinone-2.35$  ./install
Step 4:  Perform the path settings
# LD_LIBRARY_PATH
OTCL_LIB=/home/prv/ns-allinone-2.35/otcl-1.14/
NS2_LIB=/home/prv/ns-allinone-2.35/lib/
USR_Local_LIB=/usr/local/lib/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$OTCL_LIB:$NS2_LIB:$USR_Local_LIB

# TCL_LIBRARY
TCL_LIB=/home/prv/ns-allinone-2.35/tcl8.5.10/library/
USR_LIB=/usr/lib/
export TCL_LIBRARY=$TCL_LIBRARY:$TCL_LIB:$USR_LIB

# PATH
XGRAPH=/home/prv/ns-allinone-2.35/xgraph-12.2/:/home/prv/ns-allinone-2.35/bin/:/home/prv/ns-allinone-2.35/tcl8.5.10/unix/:/home/prv/ns-allinone-2.35/tk8.5.10/unix/
NS=/home/prv/ns-allinone-2.35/ns-2.35/
NAM=/home/prv/ns-allinone-2.35/nam-1.15/
export PATH=$PATH:$XGRAPH:$NS:$NAM