Installing TinyOS in UBUNTU 12.04 LTS

This installation procedure was tested on UBUNTU 12.04 LTS

Requirements: An UNBTU 12.04 LTS 32-bit system with Internet connectivity

step 1: open command line and type

    sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

step 2: add the following repository at the end of the list

    deb http://tinyos.stanford.edu/tinyos/dists/ubuntu lucid main

step 3: save the file and run

    sudo apt-get update

step 4: Install nesC compiler which is required for TinyOS programming. This step also install java environment.

    sudo apt-get install nesc

step 5: Install the cross tools (tool-chain), Debian MSP430 and Debian AVR using following

    sudo apt-get install msp430-tinyos avr-binutils-tinyos msp430-gcc-tinyos msp430-libc-tinyos

step 6: Install g++ compiler. (This step can be ignored if it is already installed on the system). Also install python development.


    sudo apt-get install g++

    sudo apt-get install  python-dev -y


step 7: Install automake tool

    sudo apt-get install automake

Step 8: Install tinyos operating system

    sudo apt-get install tinyos

    This command prompts for existing tinyos versions for download. Select a suitable version and download as shown below.

    sudo apt-get install tinyos-2.1.2
   
step 9: change the perimissions of tinyos installation folder

    sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/tinyos-2.1.2

step 10: create a file called tinyos.sh in /opt/tinyos-2.1.2

    sudo gedit /opt/tinyos-2.1.2/tinyos.sh

step 10: copy and past the following content in the tinyos.sh file

    # Here we setup the environment
    # variables needed by the tinyos
    # make system

    export TOSROOT=/opt/tinyos-2.1.2
    export TOSDIR=$TOSROOT/tos
    export MAKERULES=$TOSROOT/support/make/Makerules
    export CLASSPATH=$TOSROOT/support/sdk/java/tinyos.jar:.
    export PYTHONPATH=.:$TOSROOT/support/sdk/python:$PYTHONPATH
    export PATH=$TOSROOT/support/sdk/c:$PATH

    echo "setting up TinyOS on source path $TOSROOT"

step 11: open bashrc file

    sudo gedit ~/.bashrc

    and add the following content at the end of the file

    #Tinyos path
    source /opt/tinyos-2.1.2/tinyos.sh

step 12: close the terminal and reopen to see the tinyos path estalishment

   

Installing Lyx in UBUNTU

Lyx is a latex editor (WYSIWYM) which helps researchers and writers to edit their content. Latest version of the Lyx can be obtained as follows

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lyx-devel/release
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install lyx

Installing Remastersys in UBUNTU

Remastersys is a back up and recovery software that helps you to create custom/ boot able live CD/DVD of the entire UBUNTU distribution. This software can be installed as follows


$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/repository karmic/"


$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install remastersys

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

Simulating GAF in NS-2

Geographic Adaptive Fidelity (GAF) is a protocol that can be used along with other protocols such as AODV, DSR etc. 

Here I am providing steps to run GAF

One can look into the ../ns-2.35/tcl/test folder for already existing TCL files

GAF can run as follows

$ ns test-all-wireless-lan-gaf.tcl gaf

However this way doing can take very long time to complete the simulation. You may open the file and can change the simulation time to a small time (by default 800 seconds is the sim time). 

The simulation traces will be available in temp.rands file.

You can also add nam trace file as follows

set namtrace      [open $opt(tr).nam w]

$ns_ namtrace-all-wireless $namtrace $opt(x) $opt(y)

in TestSuite instproc init {} function

Once the simulation is completed, you can view the simulation through nam by typing the command as follows

nam temp.rands.nam