Trace file analyzer for ad hoc routing protocols simulation with NS2

Studying ad hoc routing protocols goes through three fundamental steps, namely: simulation, performance analysis and finally results interpretation. Undoubtedly, NS2 is widely used in ad hoc networks simulation. However, the analysis of generated simulation trace-files often requires the use of different software tools and programing languages. This makes the post simulation phase difficult and inefficient. The main objective of this work is to build an analyzer of simulation tracefiles which calculates several performance metrics and synthesizes them into charts and text files.