Skip to main content

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.
Labels:

Comments

  1. FischerJune 9, 2015 at 8:01 PM

    Simply awesome.
    Congratulations!

    ReplyDelete
  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.

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

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

      Delete
  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

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Text Highlighting in Latex

While preparing a manuscript with Latex, it is often useful to highlight the changes made in the current revision with a different color. This can be achieved using the \ textcolor command provided by Latex. For example, \textcolor {red}{Hello World} would display the string "Hello World" in red color. However, the final/published copy of the manuscript does not contain any highlighted text. Therefore, if a large volume of changes were made, it becomes tiresome at the end to find and remove all the individual portions of highlighted text. This can be circumvented by defining a utility command to switch highlighting on and off as desired. In the following, we define a new Latex command, highlighttext , for this purpose. The command takes only a single argument—the text to be highlighted.     \usepackage {color}    % For highlighting changes in this version with red color   \newcommand { \highlighttext }[1] { \textcolor {red}{#1}}   % Remove...
1 comment
Read more

Specifying Source and Destination of Messages

One of the frequently asked questions in the community is how to specify which particular nodes would act as source(s) and destination(s) of the messages created in the ONE simulator. The simulator, in fact, provides a pair of settings (shown below in bold face) aimed for this particular purpose. Let us consider that there are $n + 1$ nodes in an OMN.  Further, let the nodes with addresses from $x$ to $y$, both inclusive, would create messages. The nodes in the range $w$ to $z$, both inclusive, would be the destinations of those messages, where $0 \le x \le y \le n$, and $0 \le w \le z \le n$. Then, the corresponding simulation scenario can be configured as follows. ## Message creation parameters # How many event generators Events.nrof = 1 # Class of the first event generator Events1.class = MessageEventGenerator # (Following settings are specific for the MessageEventGenerator class) # Creation interval in seconds (one new message every 25 to 35 seconds) Events1.interval ...
20 comments
Read more

The ONE Tutorial (Moved)

Contents Introduction Why? Target Audience Pre-conditions The Scenario General Steps Configuration File(s) Specify Scenario Settings Specify Network Interfaces for Nodes Create a Group of Nodes Specify Motion Patterns Specify Traffic Pattern Specify Reports to be Generated Running the Simulation The ONE tutorial has moved to a new page. Please click here to follow. Introduction Opportunistic Network Environment is a Java-based simulator targeted for research in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs)/Opportunistic Mobile Networks (OMNs). Apart from letting a user to simulate different scenarios quickly and in a flexible manner, it also provides an easy way to generate statistics from the simulation performed. ONE can be run on Linux, Windows, or any other platform supporting Java. Details about ONE, including how to download and run, can be found from the official site . A list of common questions and their answers are listed here . Read more »
15 comments
Read more