About uan routing protocal help!!!

[jmsliu...@sina.com]

Hi,

I need to implement and simulate a routing algorithm for underwater acoustic sensor networks. Than compare it with other algorithm.

There are two alternatives in my mind, I will either use Aquasim which is a patch on ns-2.30 or ns3 UAN module. I prefer ns3 which is more promising and open to development, since I want to continue working with underwater acoustic sensor networks in my MS thesis where I will most probably implement and compare 3 common MAC protocols for underwater acoustic sensor networks.( I also want to be a contributer to ns3 while working on my ms thesis.)

But, I am confused.
Aquasim seems has no more support and not enough documentation. Also it seems to have no future, no more than a patch. But offers ns2 classes, directed diffussion for example.
Ns3 seems attractive, new and promising. But it is still under development, I feel it might have missing parts that I can easily have in ns2(Aquasim).

My questions are,

How hard will be to implement and simulate a routing algorithm for underwater acoustic sensor networks with UAN module? I could not see anything related to routing in the source files of UAN module.

Does UAN module provides APIs for simulating underwater acoustic sensor networks, (no AUVs, just nodes) ?

Thanks and regards.