Extensions by Ulm University


During the recent months, a number of extensions and improvements for JiST/SWANS have been developed at Ulm University, particularly for vehicular ad hoc networks. On these pages, we provide introduction, documentation and download of the extensions.

JiST/SWANS Improvements

  • Bugfixes
  • Java 1.5 support (with up to 40% performance increase)
  • Implementation completion
JiST/SWANS Enhancements

  • Provides new schedulers for JiST
  • Provides a new interface queue implementation which can drop packets in case the queue is full
  • Provides new mobility model to replay ns-2 mobility files
  • Provides a set of improved Map and Properties implementations
  • Provides some new applications
DUCKS Execution Framework

  • Provides a generic driver that builds simulations specified in configuration files
  • Provides a controller that is capable of running a complete simulation study on multiple JiST servers running within the network
  • Defines a structured way of collecting simulation results
  • Can store simulation results e.g. on a database server
Geographic routing

  • Geographic addressing
  • Geographic forwarding: Geounicast, Geobroadcast, Geoanycast

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