A Remote Platform of Performance Analysis and visualization for Ad Hoc Networks

In this paper, a remote visual analysis platform for ad hoc networks was designed. This platform uses a client/server model to achieve wireless routing protocol performance analysis and test. In this platform, the client is implemented by Qt GUI Application, with NS2 as a background server computing platform. Through using remote communication mechanism of Qt Socket, the client and the server are connected remotely. It can realize a remote visual analysis for wireless ad hoc network latency, packet loss, and throughput and simplify the complex process of simulation. We used the platform to conduct experiments for analysis of multiple wireless scenarios. Experiments results show that the validity of this platform, which also can provide an important means for the study of wireless ad hoc network performance.