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50K Views of the DTN Blog

The DTN blog recently reached a milestone — it crossed 50,000 page views!

The journey of this blog — and that of mine with the ONE simulator — started in 2011. Back in those days, old-timers would recall, there were not much resources available on the ONE simulator. After spending some time with it, I was finally able to gain some understanding about its functionality and work flow. I realized that a short how-to document might benefit others.

What started as a humble effort to provide a quick tutorial on the ONE simulator soon became a popular resource in the community over the years. I'm thankful to all the users of the ONE mailing list who continuously kept me motivated to enrich this blog.

I took this opportunity to prepare an infographic on the usage of the DTN blog based on the statistics provided by Blogger. It has not been possible to include all statistics in the infographic. A few interesting observations are noted below.
  • Undoubtedly, the ONE tutorial is the most popular entry in this blog.
  • Among the different search keywords, the phrase "one simulator" has the highest frequency.
  • Strangely, 68% traffic comes from Windows machines! Frankly, I was not expecting that. Linux and Macintosh are at a tie with each driving 11% traffic.

Hope that in the coming years I could add more useful content to this blog. Keep reading!

Finally, thanks to all of you, once again, for your motivation and support that helps the DTN blog stay alive.

View the above inforgraphic in details.
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  1. FischerJune 9, 2015 at 8:01 PM

    Simply awesome.
    Congratulations!

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  2. UnknownNovember 28, 2016 at 9:42 PM

    Hi, Barun. Congratulations on your blog. That is very helpful for whose want to fast start up about DTN.
    I have a question: Do you have a code example about profileCast_CSI?

    Thanks.

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    1. Barun SahaDecember 2, 2016 at 11:25 AM

      Thanks for your comment! However, I have not worked with profile cast.

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  3. UnknownFebruary 19, 2017 at 9:20 AM

    Hi, I m new to ONE simulator, I m using ONE with Eclipse.. when I start compiling main class of simulator named "DTNSim.java", following errors are shown:

    Can't start: error in configuration file(s)
    Can't find setting 'Scenario.nrofHostGroups'

    I checked the default_setting.txt file, where Scenario.nrofHostGroups is assigned a value 6 that is the value of total no. of groups... what should I do? can you please suggest me a solution

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