TicToc Tutorial for OMNeT++

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This short tutorial to OMNeT++ guides you through an example of modeling and simulation, showing you along the way some of the commonly used OMNeT++ features.

The tutorial is based on the Tictoc example simulation, which you can find in the samples/tictoc directory of your OMNeT++ installation, so you can try out immediately how the examples work. However, you'll find the tutorial much more useful if you actually carry out at least the first steps described here.

Note:

We assume here that you have a working OMNeT++ installation. We also assume that you have a good C++ knowledge, and you are in general familiar with C/C++ development (editing source files, compiling, debugging etc.) on your operating system. (The latter two are out of our scope here -- there are excellent books, tutorials on the web, etc. if you need to update your knowledge on that.) We highly recommend to use the OMNeT++ Integrated Development Environment for editing and building your simulations.

To make the examples easier to follow, all source code in here is cross-linked to the OMNeT++ API documentation.

This document and the TicToc model are an expanded version of the original TicToc tutorial from Ahmet Sekercioglu (Monash University).

Contents

• 1. Getting started
• 2. Enhancing the 2-node TicToc
• 3. Turning it into a real network
• 4. Adding statistics collection
• 5. Visualizing the results with the OMNeT++ IDE

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