Introduction

EMANE-Docker is a platform to deploy and emulate distributed wireless networks using EMANE (Extendable Module Ad-hoc Network Emulator). EMANE-Docker allows you to deploy arbitrary topologies with different routing protocols including OLSR, OLSRv2 and OSPF, test different traffic loads (with MGEN and iPerf) and network events with EMANE Event Generator.

EMANE-Docker can do the following:

• Deploy a wireless network, where each node is emulated with a Docker container
• Connect each node base on the initial topology using EMANE
• Run EMANE EventService to emulate network events
• Generate traffic between nodes using MGEN or iPerf

The following shows the parameters of the EMANE-Docker platform.

usage: emane-docker [-h] [-s] [-S] [-y] [-c CONFIG_FILE] [-t TOPOLOGY_FILE]

[-v] [–no-cli] [–no-log] [–debug] [–draw-topology] [–figure-path FIGURE_PATH]

optional arguments:

-h, --help	show this help message and exit
-s, --start	run EMANE-Docker
-S, --stop	stop EMANE-Docker
-y	answer yes to all prompts
-c CONFIG_FILE, --config-file CONFIG_FILE
	path for configuration file
-t TOPOLOGY_FILE, --topology-file TOPOLOGY_FILE
	path to the topology file, overrides he path in configuration file
-v, --version	show program’s version number and exit
--no-cli	do not run EMANE-Docker CLI
--no-log	do not output logs
--debug	set log level to debug
--draw-topology
	draw current topology file
--figure-path FIGURE_PATH
	output path for figure, if –draw-topology is specified