This is a quick readme file for an early version of the topology generator, running with the GAtech itm generator. Getting the files and packages: - get the GT-ITM package for topology generation from GAtech: directly from: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Ellen.Zegura/graphs.html then go to 'Software' and click on GT-ITM, or go thru the vint web pages: http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns-topogen.html - get the conversion program 'sgb2ns' from http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns-topogen.html go to 'Conversion of GT-ITM output to ns-2 format - add itm and sgb2ns to your path - get files topo-gen.tcl, topo-view.tcl, topo-gen-script.tcl topo-gen.tcl: provides an API for the topology generator topo-view.tcl: to view the topology using nam after generation and before actual simulation topo-gen-script.tcl: an example of using the functions provided by the above 2 files you're ready to go... ! run topo-gen-script.tcl and view the output topologies [nam may not do a good job in viewing large and complex topologies... see what you think !]. If you want more help on how to use the 'topology' proc in topo-gen.tcl, run ns, source topo-gen.tcl, then type 'topology -h' and follow instructions. date: 5/23/98, Ahmed Helmy, ahelmy@usc.edu