[ndnSIM] A question about ndnSIM (hope for answer)

[Alex Afanasyev]

On Mar 13, 2014, at 2:17 AM, 邹凡云 <zfy901 at sz.pku.edu.cn> wrote:

> Hello, Alex! 
> I asked you question over the last year and thanks for your patience to answer. 
> Now, I have another question about ndnSIM. I hope that you can help me. 
> I use "AppDelayTracer" to obtain "hopcount". 
> There's description on ndnsim.net which is "One consequence is that Interests satisfied by an app will have even hop count (min hop count = 2), and Interests satisfied from caches will have odd hop count (min hop count = 1)"
> 
> In my experiment
> The number of hopcount under the path "consumer-router-router-producer" is 8. Why isn't 6(=3*2)? I don't know why there's extra two hops. 
> The number of hopcount under the path "consumer-router(with cache)" is 3. Why isn't 2(=1*2)? I don't know why there's extra one hop. 

Do I understand correctly that in the above path, each element represent a physical node?  If so, you forgot to calculate in application contribution to hop count.  When application sends out interest/data, hop count is not increased (send out is done via an appFace callback), when application receives interest/data, hop count **is** increased.

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Alex

> 
> Do you know how to explain the number of hopcount? 
> I am looking forward to your reply. 
> Thank you so much for reading my email. 
> 
> --Fanyun Zou
> Peking University