MANET-viewer: a visualization system for mobile ad-hoc networks

  • Authors:

  • Akio Koyama;Kenyu Kamakura;Leonard Barolli

  • Affiliations:

  • Yamagata University, Jonan, Yonezawa, Japan;Yamagata University, Jonan, Yonezawa, Japan;Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the MANET-Viewer which is a system that builds a visible ad-hoc network using PCs and wireless LAN cards. The multi-hop communication function needed for visualization of ad-hoc network is implemented on the application layer as a pseudo protocol. For visualization, we implemented three methods: HOP Tree method, manual method and GPS method. The communication for visualization is completed in few seconds. We verified by an experiment that the MANET-Viewer system represented the state of each node and the network structure in a prompt way and made the monitoring of ad-hoc network easily.