Scenarios Generator for Ad Hoc Networks

Ad hoc networks offer many excellent prospects as a complementary technology to the traditional cellular networks. Nonetheless, some problems still slow down their deployment on a large scale. One of the major challenges is the random variation of the network topology. Our contribution aims at as well as possible to approach a realistic description in ad hoc scenarios definition in order to have a better analysis of the physical layer. This is useful to improve global performances of the network. We present a simulation tool, "SMGen" which allows to specify and to generate realistic tactical scenarios. The simulator implements six tactical scenarios according to a typical hierarchical structure of armies. However, it allows defining a custom scenario. The implemented mobility models are stemmed from "Gauss-Markov" (GMM) and "reference velocity group mobility" (RVGM). Many others functionalities thanks to a convivial user interface are also presented