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Introduction to OPNET Modeler
Wireless Suite for Defense: 3DNV and SITL (1 day)
Prerequisites:
Introduction to Modeler or 3 months experience with Modeler
Familiarity with OPNET process models and wireless propagation concepts, and familiarity with C/C++ programming.
Course Description:
Through labs and lecture, this course will show you how to use The 3D Network Visualizer (3DNV) module to visualize and animate communication network models in three dimensions (3D). You will learn how to enhance the value of OPNET simulations for mobile wireless environments and for military/defense networks by enabling you to graphically visualize network entities, terrain, and communication effects.
Using the System-in-the-Loop (SITL) module, you will learn how to enable device models and protocols running in an OPNET discrete-event simulation to communicate directly with actual (live) network devices by the exchange of packets. You will learn how to extend the functionality of OPNET Modeler to analyze the effects of a live system on an OPNET simulation or vice versa.
Agenda:
- Introduction to 3DNV
- Visualizing a network in 3D in the Project Editor workspace or during a discrete event simulation
- Use of terrain
- Defining a 3DNV mapping library to control how network objects are mapped to 3D entities (humans, vehicles, aircrafts, and so on)
- Adding 3D objects (such as text, lines, and polygons) to the 3D view based on computed network communications effects, using custom ETS code (Planning) or DES code in process models and pipeline stages
- Animating physical communication using callbacks that are independent of the actual pipeline stages
- Troubleshooting 3D animations (including debugging and speed)
- Combining 3DNV and HLA modules
- Review of System-in-the-Loop (SITL) Architecture and Workflow
- Configuring a SITL Simulation
- Writing Custom Code for SITL
- Debugging with SITL
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