Revising the User Interface of NEMAN

Abstract

This thesis is the final part of my Master Degree at the University of Oslo Department of Informatics. The thesis has been carried out under the supervision of Professor Thomas Plagemann and Phd. student Matija Pužar (Author of NEMAN) for the Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMMS) research group, the thesis itself is part of the Ad-hoc Infoware project. In this thesis we revise the graphical user interface (GUI) of the network emulator NEMAN. We discover that this interface has both technical issues and might also introduce copyright violation. Based on these facts we have designed and developed, with the C++ programming language and the Qt framework, a GPL licensed enhanced user interface, which consists of both a graphical and a command line interface. We have performed several analyses on both the old GUI and the new interface in order to compare the performance.