Demo: Interactive web visualizer for IEEE 802.11ah ns-3 module
Amina Seferagić, Dwight Kerkhove, Ingrid Moerman, Eli De Poorter, Jeroen Hoebeke · Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) · 2018
In order to meet the rising demands for Internet of Things technologies, Wi-Fi community has developed Wi-Fi HaLow (IEEE 802.11ah).The new standard extends Wi-Fi supporting dense deployments of autonomous devices with various power capabilities and traffic patterns over a wide area.As there is no hardware supporting Wi-Fi HaLow available at the market yet, ns-3 opted to be an appropriate starting point for research on Wi-Fi Halow.However, extracting and parsing the data from ns-3 is in most cases time consuming and prone to mistakes.Post-processing is even harder when a large number of simulations need to be analyzed and even the Tracing System cannot simplify this task much.To automate data extraction and analysis, we developed a user-friendly interactive visualization and post-processing tool for Wi-Fi HaLow called ahVisualizer.In this demo, we present the ahVisualizer and demonstrate its operation with ns-3 on several examples of Wi-Fi HaLow networks.The ahVisualizer enables live monitoring of a set of measurements for each individual node, as well as insight in live measurements for a network as whole.It enables offline comparison of saved simulations and plotting series of metrics over a set of simulations.This tool provides an immediate insight in a simulation results while the simulation is running, and it makes both data extraction and analysis significantly faster and easier.