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Recent work by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology produced new add-on modules for the popular network simulator tool, ns-2, that allow users to simulate vertical (heterogeneous) handover scenarios in a network topology consisted by different radio access technologies such as WiMAX, Wi-Fi and UMTS. The developed Media Independent Handover functionality was based on draft 3 of the recent IEEE 802.21 standard. By using this modified version of ns-2, this paper presents two new tools to parse the resulting ns-2 tracing files and provide a graphical view of simulated scenarios and common metrics for evaluating the handover performance.
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Marques, H., Ribeiro, J., Marques, P., Rodriguez, J. (2012). Developing Tools for Parsing ns-2 Results: IEEE802.21 Case Scenario. In: Rodriguez, J., Tafazolli, R., Verikoukis, C. (eds) Mobile Multimedia Communications. MobiMedia 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 77. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35155-6_28
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