#! /bin/awk -f BEGIN { # simple awk script to generate end-to-end packet lifetime statistics # in a form suitable for plotting with xgraph. # Lloyd Wood, July 1999. # http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/ns/ highest_packet_id = 0; } { action = $1; time = $2; node_1 = $3; node_2 = $4; src = $5; flow_id = $8; node_1_address = $9; node_2_address = $10; seq_no = $11; packet_id = $12; if ( packet_id > highest_packet_id ) highest_packet_id = packet_id; # getting start time is not a problem, provided you're not starting # traffic at 0.0. # could test for sending node_1_address or flow_id here. if ( start_time[packet_id] == 0 ) start_time[packet_id] = time; # only useful for small unicast where packet_id doesn't wrap. # checking receive means avoiding recording drops if ( action != "d" ) { if ( action == "r" ) { # could test for receiving node_2_address or flow_id here. end_time[packet_id] = time; } } else { end_time[packet_id] = -1; } } END { for ( packet_id = 0; packet_id <= highest_packet_id; packet_id++ ) { start = start_time[packet_id]; end = end_time[packet_id]; packet_duration = end - start; if ( start < end ) printf("%d %f\n", start, packet_duration); } }