NS2 Trace File Analysis Tool

Clone with HTTPS: https://git.sr.ht/~humaid/ns2-trace-go

Written in Go, licensed under the AGPL-3.0-only license

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1. Description

Screenshot of the analysis page showing statistics of the trace file and a table of connections with buttons to view jitter

This web application allows you to analyse trace files generated by ns2 (Network Simulator 2). It will generate the following:

Jitter graphs for all segments of the network
Number of:
- Received packets
- Dropped packets
- Lost packets.
- Collisions in the network
- Average hops
- Total active nodes
- Trace file entries (which are tcp, udp, or cbr)
Average delay
Total bandwidth used
Total network time
Network throughput

2. Requirements

The following packages must be installed on your system.

You also need to have a trace file so use on the web application.

3. Copying and contributing

This program is written by Humaid AlQassimi, and is distributed under the AGPL 3.0 only license. This means if you make your own version of this tool, you must release its source under the same license.

4. Downloading and building

$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~humaid/ns2-trace-go
$ cd ns2-trace-go
$ go build *.go

5. Usage

You can optionally set the port, by setting the PORT environment variable.

$ ns2-trace-go

By default, it will use port :4000.

6. Change log

v0.1 (26 Nov 2019)
- Initial release