An Active Network Monitor

Experimenting with active networks involves testing several different topologies and thus forces the programmer to deal with a number of
configuration files, whose maintenance becomes less and less easy as the complexity of the topology grows; the need of having an easier and faster way to perform the experiments has pushed us to develop a graphical, user-friendly tool, in order to the designer from bothering with secondary details.

It has soon become clear that such tool does not need to be limited to just a graphical network, but it could grow to a complete monitor able to
gather information about the state of the network (thus conveying up-to-date information about the behavior of the active agents) and, above all, to influence and change the state of the active nodes on the fly.

Up to this moment, the GUI has been written; it is designed to set up and run a PLANet network, whose characteristics may be completely tuned.

Figure 1: The main window: a network has been created and the properies of a node (the one at left bottom) are being set. The network may be with the Run
command from the File menu

Figure 2: the Link properties window
 

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Marco Ortolani