ORBIT-USER: Global Positioning Service in ORBIT

[Pandurang Kamat]

I think he meant "two implementations"

-Pandurang

Arinto Murdopo wrote:
> If the position service is provided using a configuration file, will 
> there any synchronization problem between the nodes? My thought is maybe 
> the node will read incorrect position because the destinatino node 
> doesn't read the configuration file in the same time. Is this problem 
> possible to happen?
> 
> By the way, sorry I don't get what you mean. What does "tow 
> implementation" mean? Could you give me more example?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Arinto
> 
> On 9/13/06, * Max Ott* <max at winlab.rutgers.edu 
> <mailto:max at winlab.rutgers.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Arinto,
> 
>     The easiest way to do is to cleanly isolate the GPS service through
>     and interface, library call, reading from a named pipe (file), or a
>     command line switch assuming you have fixed nodes. Then you have tow
>     implementations, one for systems which have GPS (I assume that's what
>     you have) and then one for fixed systems which read their position
>     from a config file.
> 
>     It primarily depends on how you have implemented it so far.
> 
>     -max
> 
>     On 9/13/06, Arinto Murdopo <arinto at gmail.com
>     <mailto:arinto at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > Hi all,
>      >
>      > I want to emulate VANET in ORBIT and I'll use Greedy Parameter
>     Stateless
>      > Routing(GPSR) protocol as the routing protocol. Currently  I'm
>     still in
>      > protocol implementation stage, after I finish this stage, I'll
>     upload the
>      > protocol to ORBIT testbed and emulate the network and vehicle
>     mobility. My
>      > concern about this protocol is the Global Positioning
>     Service(GPS) needed by
>      > GPSR. And my intial idea is to implement this GPS via the ORBIT
>     testbed
>      > itself, which mean ORBIT testbed will provide position/location
>     information
>      > of one node to other nodes.
>      >
>      > I'm still a newbie in ORBIT testbed, that's why I need your
>     opinion and
>      > suggestion regarding this matter. I'll appreciate your help in this
>      > matter.Anyone implementing something like GPS in ORBIT testbed
>     before,
>      > please share your experience.
>      >
>      > Thank you for your attention,
>      >
>      > Regards,
>      >
>      > Arinto
>      > School of Computer Engineering
>      > Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
>      >
>      >
> 
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