12.6 Wifi Tracing

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ns-3 has a sophisticated tracing infrastructure that allows users to hook into existing trace sources, or to define and export new ones.

Wifi-related trace sources that are available by default include:

• ns3::WifiNetDevice
  • Rx: Received payload from the MAC layer.
  • Tx: Send payload to the MAC layer.
• ns3::WifiPhy
  • State: The WifiPhy state
  • RxOk: A packet has been received successfully.
  • RxError: A packet has been received unsuccessfully.
  • Tx: Packet transmission is starting.

Briefly, this means, for example, that a user can hook a processing function to the "State" tracing hook above and be notified whenever the WifiPhy model changes state.

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