Use iperf to measure the throughput over NS3 networks and dynamically plot the throughput with gnuplot

[topology]

Read https://nqucsie.myqnapcloud.com/smallko/ns3/ns3-usebridge.htm and https://nqucsie.myqnapcloud.com/smallko/ns3/ns3-ffmpeg.htm first to know how to set up the network topology.

process.sh

filename='/home/user/ns-3-allinone/ns-3.34/a'

> /home/user/ns-3-allinone/ns-3.34/result

> /home/user/ns-3-allinone/ns-3.34/a

b="not"

while true

do

   if [ -s "$filename" ]

   then

        #echo "$filename is NOT empty file."

        while IFS= read -r line

        do

          result=`echo "$line" | grep "sec"`

          if [[ -n $result ]]

          then

            #echo $result

            b="done"

            break

          fi

        done < a

   fi

   if [ $b = "done" ]

   then

     break

   fi

done

while IFS= read -r line

do

  result=`echo "$line" | grep "sec" | tr "-" " " | awk '{print $4,$8}'`

  if [[ -n $result ]]

  then

    echo $result

    echo $result >> result

    sleep 1

  fi

done < a

gnuplot-plot

FILE = 'result'

stop = 0

N = 50

set yrange [0:5]

set ytics 0,0.5,5

set key off

set xlabel "time(sec)"

set ylabel "Throughput(Mbps)"

while (!stop) {  

    pause 0.05       # pause in seconds

    stats [*:*][*:*] FILE u 0 nooutput

    lPnts=STATS_records<N ? 0: STATS_records-N

    plot FILE u 1:2 every ::lPnts w lp pt 7

}

plot-throughput.sh

filename='/home/user/ns-3-allinone/ns-3.34/result'

while true

do

   if [ -s "$filename" ]

   then

        #echo "$filename is NOT empty file."

        break

   fi

done

gnuplot gnuplot-plot

Execution

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And you can see

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Last Modified: 2022/2/27 done

[Author]

Dr. Chih-Heng Ke

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Quemoy University, Kinmen, Taiwan

Email: smallko@gmail.com