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# NRL Services
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## Overview
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The Protean Protocol Prototyping Library (ProtoLib) is a cross-platform library that allows applications to be built
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while supporting a variety of platforms including Linux, Windows, WinCE/PocketPC, MacOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc as well
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as the simulation environments of NS2 and Opnet. The goal of the Protolib is to provide a set of simple, cross-platform
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C++ classes that allow development of network protocols and applications that can run on different platforms and in
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network simulation environments. While Protolib provides an overall framework for developing working protocol
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implementations, applications, and simulation modules, the individual classes are designed for use as stand-alone
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components when possible. Although Protolib is principally for research purposes, the code has been constructed to
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provide robust, efficient performance and adaptability to real applications. In some cases, the code consists of data
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structures, etc useful in protocol implementations and, in other cases, provides common, cross-platform interfaces to
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system services and functions (e.g., sockets, timers, routing tables, etc).
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Currently, the Naval Research Laboratory uses this library to develop a wide variety of protocols.The NRL Protolib
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currently supports the following protocols:
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* MGEN_Sink
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* NHDP
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* SMF
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* OLSR
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* OLSRv2
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* OLSRORG
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* MgenActor
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* arouted
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## NRL Installation
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In order to be able to use the different protocols that NRL offers, you must first download the support library itself.
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You can get the source code from their [NRL Protolib Repo](https://github.com/USNavalResearchLaboratory/protolib).
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## Multi-Generator (MGEN)
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Download MGEN from the [NRL MGEN Repo](https://github.com/USNavalResearchLaboratory/mgen), unpack it and copy the
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protolib library into the main folder *mgen*. Execute the following commands to build the protocol.
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```shell
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cd mgen/makefiles
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make -f Makefile.{os} mgen
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```
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## Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NHDP)
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Download NHDP from the [NRL NHDP Repo](https://github.com/USNavalResearchLaboratory/NCS-Downloads/tree/master/nhdp).
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```shell
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sudo apt-get install libpcap-dev libboost-all-dev
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wget https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v3.8.0/protoc-3.8.0-linux-x86_64.zip
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unzip protoc-3.8.0-linux-x86_64.zip
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```
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Then place the binaries in your $PATH. To know your paths you can issue the following command
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```shell
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echo $PATH
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```
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Go to the downloaded *NHDP* tarball, unpack it and place the protolib library inside the NHDP main folder. Now, compile
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the NHDP Protocol.
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```shell
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cd nhdp/unix
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make -f Makefile.{os}
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```
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## Simplified Multicast Forwarding (SMF)
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Download SMF from the [NRL SMF Repo](https://github.com/USNavalResearchLaboratory/nrlsmf) , unpack it and place the
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protolib library inside the *smf* main folder.
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```shell
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cd mgen/makefiles
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make -f Makefile.{os}
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```
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## Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR)
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To install the OLSR protocol, download their source code from
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their [NRL OLSR Repo](https://github.com/USNavalResearchLaboratory/nrlolsr). Unpack it and place the previously
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downloaded protolib library inside the *nrlolsr* main directory. Then execute the following commands:
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```shell
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cd ./unix
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make -f Makefile.{os}
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```
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