In a Wireless environment and according to the wireless communication principle, the data is broadcasted to every node and only the designated node receives it. All other nodes ignore the data. (See the picture below)
But for a particular needs, I want to hide all others data transmission links [(WirelessSignal)Data] as only the sink is receiving, i.e. I only want to see the link between the sender and the sink.
How to disable the physical layer transmission in INET??
I'm using the INET SensorNode module.
Thanks for your inputs.
To be precise: all nodes receive the packet in the communication range but only the destination node is passing it up from the link layer to the network layer. The rest of the nodes are receiving it also, but they are dropping it in the link layer. What you are after is to visualize communication on link layer (as opposed to the physical layer).
There are specialized visualizers in INET that display link layer activity. You should use that.
At the same time, if the actual physical layer transmission is bothering you, you can switch that off in the Qtenv animation settings dialog. That way, you will see only the LinkLayer visualizer, but not the physical transmissions that broadcast to all nearby node.
