We have implemented several Active Queue Management (AQM) algorithms in the ns-2 network simulator. These algorithms were orginally implemented in ns-2.1b5 and tested up to ns-2.1b7. More information on the files and related papers is described below:
SRED: sred.cc, sred.h
T. J. Ott, T. V. Lakshman, and L. H. Wong, SRED: Stabilized RED, In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, March 1999.
FRED: fred.cc, fred.h
D. Lin and R. Morris, Dynamics of Random Early Detection,
In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, September 1997.
BLUE: blue.cc, blue.h
W. Feng, D. Kandlur, D. Saha, and K. Shin, BLUE: A New Class of Active Queue
Management Algorithms, In Proceedings of ACM NOSSDAV, June 2001.
LDC: ldc.cc, ldc.h
M. Kwon and S. Fahmy, A Comparison of Load-based and Queue-based
Active Queue Management Algorithms, In Proceedings of SPIE ITCom,
July 2002. [PDF] [Postscript]
The new files (*.cc and *.h) should be placed in the ns-2 main directory. In addition, ns-default.tcl should be updated for default values of the parameters used in the new algorithms. We provide a sample ns-default.tcl file. Of course, you can change the parameters as you want. Makefile should also be updated to reflect the addition of the new files. After successful recompilation, you can use different AQMs by indicating their names (like RED) when you create network topology in a TCL file. We use SRED, FRED, BLUE and LDC for these names.
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Please contact James Minseok Kwon at jmk@cs.rit.edu if you have any questions.