Announce: qosrns-0.2-pre1

[Amardeep S. <ama...@ii...>]

Hi,

A new version of qosrns has been released.

It is a prelease of qosrns-0.2. I hope to release final version of it in 
a week. Final version would also ship with a version of mns for ns-2.1b8a 
with support for qosrns.

This prerelease can be found at
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=35391&release_id=83927


Overview of changes in qosrns-0.2:
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1. qosrns is implemented as a seperate module, so it can coexist with
linkstate routing 

2. qosrns uses RtModule interface, thus making it easy to use it with
other routing modules

3. qosrns now supports on demand route computation. it is changed by
setting variable 
  Agent/QOSPF onDemand

4. qosrns now supports fine grained policy about when to send link
updates. it could be send periodically, as well as when bandwidth
changes by a certain percent. it can also use a hold down timer to not
send updates too quickly. it is controoled by modifying following 3
variables:
  Agent/QOSPF set advertInterval               	#periodic update interval
  Agent/QOSPF set advertHoldDownInterval       	#hold down timer for 
updates
  Agent/QOSPF set advertMinBwChangePercent     	#updates due to bw changes 
are only sent 
						when bw changes by this 
percent

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Amardeep Singh