Expanded ring-based forwarder selection to improve packet delivery in ultra-dense nanonetworks, published at International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference 2022

The simulation uses BitSimulator. You need to download and compile it.

Extract the contents of expandedring.zip into the BitSimulator directory (where the bitsimulator executable is).

expandedring.zip files:

• expandedring.sh executes the simulator for all scenarios multiple times. The results are written to finalresults.txt in the respective subdirectory.
• par.sh launches jobs in parallel.
• scenario.xml describes the scenario to be executed. It exists in 6 variants in the respective subdirectories for the two routing agents (pure flooding and slr), and for three schemes: no ring, original ring and expanded ring. It runs for 10 different random seeds and for 10000 nodes in the network.

Open the bitsimulator directory and run expandedring.sh from it using this command: PARALLEL=2 ./par.sh expandedring.sh. This runs 2 jobs in parallel and takes some time (for 120 runs), and requires free storage (Bitsimulator creates about 2.5GB log per run, overall 65 GB of logs).

Figures 5 and 6 are reproduced using visualtracer in the (subdirectory)/run0 using the command ../../../visualtracer -D . -s 1000000000000.

Table 2: "Evaluation results with 10000 nodes averaged for 10 runs and 50 packets each" are found in (subdirectory)/finalresults.txt.