GSOC2023NetAnimFinalReport

Project Overview

• Project Name: Dynamic device registration for NetAnim simulation animations
• Contributor: Raghuram Kannan
• Mentors: Tommaso Pecorella and Manoj Kumar Rana
• Main Goal: The project aims to refactor the NetAnim module such that each module willing to use NetAnim will have a .cc and .h file responsible for communication with the NetAnim module, enabled only if NetAnim is active. This will break the dependencies and will allow more flexibility for out-of-tree modules and modules migrating to the AppStore.
• Useful links:
  • Project wiki page - used to track the work in progress.

Merge Requests

All the work done during GSoC has been committed to one branch, named gsoc-2023-netanim-changes.

Listed below are all the Merge Requests made during the GSoC period.

Merge Requests

No.	Name
[1]	NetAnim: GSoC-23 Dynamic device registration for NetAnim simulation animations
[2]	build: Add Define for NetAnim in CMake
[3]	NetAnim: Convert AnimationInterface into a Singleton with Proxy
[4]	Draft: Refactor the CSMA Module for NetAnim Simulations
[5]	Draft: Refactored Csma Module for NetAnim (Updated Approach)
[6]	core: Add proxy to core

Milestones

• Finalized the design of adding a proxy class to the core module instead of the initially proposed Singleton + proxy approach.
• Implemented the Proxy class in the core module along with the proxy-class-test-suite for testing the Proxy class.
• Refactored the CSMA module and tested with the second.cc script to make sure it produced the same XML as before.
• Refactored the Point-to-Point module and tested with the first.cc script to make sure it produced the same XML as before.