This change reorganises the Wi-Fi MAC high classes in attempt to
reduce duplication of functionality that is required for more than one
of the MAC high models. A new class called RegularWifiMac has been
created. This derives from the abstract WifiMac, and is parent of
AdhocWifiMac, StaWifiMac, ApWifiMac, and MeshWifiInterfaceMac. The QoS
and non-QoS class variants are no longer, with a RegularWifiMac
attribute "QosSupported" allowing selection between these two modes of
operation. QosWifiMacHelper and NqosWifiMacHelper continue to work as
previously.
Updates to some regression traces are necessary because the
reorganisation has led to random number streams being initialised in
slightly different orders and thus over-the-air timing changing.
This patch attempts to lay some groundwork for enhancements to the Wi-Fi module
by bringing the representation of transmit rates more in line with the
standard.
The key part of the patch is the introduction of a type that corresponds to the
notion of Modulation Class described in IEEE 802.11-2007, Section 9.6.1, Table
9-2.
It also adds coding rate information to the WifiModes and centralises their
construction into a single WifiModeFactory method. The rates are also renamed
with reference to their Modulation Class.
WifiModes no longer have a WifiStandard, but the latter type still exists and is
used to imply the set of WifiModes that a MAC/PHY pair will support.
Correct programming error in cset 6293:11a2f62de3ec that only a compiler older than mine found with the standard options. Specifically, the time conversion functions (in this case, MilliSeconds()) take uint64's as their argument and I was passing a floating point value.
This patch adds a test suite and initial test for the Wi-Fi MSDU
aggregation support in ns-3. The test is a throughput test and is a
regression test for Bug 873 - Queue occupancy counter not decremented
in WifiMacQueue::Remove().
