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Easy steps to install Ns2 on Linux systems

Download ns2-allinone package from Internet on your system

From the Terminal login as root and do the following:

(Internet must be connected in order to install all the packages)

STEP 1

yum install autoconf

yum install automake

yum install gcc-c++

yum install libX11-devel

yum install xorg-x11-proto-devel

yum install libXt-devel

And for nam installation (optional):

yum install libXmu-devel

STEP 2

From terminal go to the folder where the ns-allinone package is downloaded and type the following

$ tar -xzf ns-allinone-2.31.tar.gz

$ cd ns-allinone-2.31

$. /install

STEP 3

gedit ~/.bashrc

Add the following lines to the end of it. 

# LD_LIBRARY_PATH

OTCL_LIB=/your/path/ns-allinone-2.31/otcl-1.13

NS2_LIB=/your/path/ns-allinone-2.31/lib

X11_LIB=/usr/X11R6/lib

USR_LOCAL_LIB=/usr/local/lib

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$OTCL_LIB:$NS2_LI B:$X11_LIB:$USR_LOCAL_LIB

# TCL_LIBRARY

TCL_LIB=/your/path/ns-allinone-2.31/tcl8.4.14/library

USR_LIB=/usr/lib

export TCL_LIBRARY=$TCL_LIB:$USR_LIB

# PATH

XGRAPH=/your/path/ns-allinone-2.31/bin:/your/path/ns-allinone-2.31/tcl8.4.14/unix:/your/path/ns-allinone-2.31/tk8.4.14/unix

NS=/your/path/ns-allinone-2.31/ns-2.31/

NAM=/your/path/ns-allinone-2.31/nam-1.13/

PATH=$PATH:$XGRAPH:$NS:$NAM

Remember replace "/your/path" by something like "/home/user". Also change the version numbers. This is for ns 2.31. 

STEP 4

source ~/.bashrc

Now, the installation has been completed. Check by typing

$ ns

Then a "%" will appear on the screen. Type "exit" to quit and return back to "$".

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M.Tech. Thesis Procedure

• Research Proposal

• Publish a survey paper in any good Journal / Conference

• Synopsis Presentation

• Publish one research paper in good Journal

• Internal Presentation after 3 months from Synopsis 

• Submit Thesis Summary with a DD

• External Viva Voce

How to write a survey paper

Regular research papers are a description of your own research. A survey paper is a service to the scientific community. You are doing their research for them. Instead of reading 20+ papers to understand what a scientific topic is about, they just need to read your paper.

Introduction

- A clear description of the field.

Terminology

- Introduce the terminology of the field, describe what the various terms mean.

Research challenges

The description of the various research challenges of the field. This is the hardest to write, because it is the part which is creative. You need to provide an integral view on the research activity of the field. You should start noting out the various objective descriptions from various papers. But it is not enough to just put them together: you need to rewrite them in your own words. Partially for the reason of copyright, and second, because you need to write a good write up, which covers all the papers not just one.

The paper surveys

And here comes where you survey your papers. 

This is how it goes:

- Decide what are you going to tell about each paper. You need to already read the paper in such a way that you know ahead what are you want to tell about them. It would help if you would assemble your reading list completely first.

When you refer a paper in your literature review, remember to cite the full info about the paper, including author names, paper title, publication details and page numbers, etc

About citations: strong recommendation that in your survey do indicate the comes of the authors as well: Laurel and Hardy [2] did this, W. E. Coyote [3] did that. It almost always helps to create a nice big table to summarize all the referred papers.