June 14, 2017
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:
The new model also separates the following components:
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.
Read the what’s new file for more detail and download INET-3.6.0 now.
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