Microsoft Research Wireless Program

Mesh Netwroking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005

• Introduction
• What's included
• What you can do with it
• What you'll need to provide
• How to install the software
• Documentation
• Who is using it
• Notes

Note: The contents of this page are relevant only to those who have the kit

How to install the software

For the installation instructions of Disks 2-5, please see the documentation included on those disks. This section will focus on Disk 1.

Disk 1 contains three software components: MCL, Venice, and Virtual WiFi. To install these components you must first run their “initial installers”. Then you can proceed to install the actual software once these initial installers have been run. The instructions for the “initial installers” are the same, but after this step, the installation process is different for each component.

There are three separate initial installers corresponding to the three components:

• MSRMesh-MCL.MSI
• MSRMesh-Venice.MSI
• MSRMesh-VirtualWIFI.MSI

The default installation directory for the all three software components is C:\MicrosoftResearchMesh. This folder is created for you during installation when you run these initial installers. You can run these initial installers in any order. During initial installation, you will be presented with a license agreement for each of the components, which you must agree to if you want to install that component.

After each initial installer has been run, three folders will have been created, resulting in the following directory structure:

C:\MicrosoftResearchMesh
C:\MicrosoftResearchMesh\MCL
C:\MicrosoftResearchMesh\Venice
C:\MicrosoftResearchMesh\VirtualWiFi

To proceed with the actual component installation, please refer to the documentation within each of the three folders corresponding to that software component. More details on the directory contents after initial installation follow (the documentation links below will work if you installed to the default directories – please edit as appropriate):

Directory contents after initial installation

• MCL – Mesh Connectivity Layer Release
  • MCL\XP – MCL source code for Windows XP and Windows Server2003. Instructions for building the sources using the Windows DDK can be found in the file C:\MicrosoftResearchMesh\MCL\XP\mcl\building.txt.
• Virtual WiFi – Virtual WiFi Release
  • C:\MicrosoftResearchMesh\VirtualWiFi\software.htm – Main information page.
  • VirtualWiFi\binaries – Virtual WiFi binaries.
  • VirtualWiFi\software – Virtual WiFi source code.
• Venice – Mesh Incubation Team Code Release
  • Venice\Mesh_M1.msi – Install package for Venice code (includes MCL binaries). To use, execute the file. This will launch the installer for the package.
  • Instructions for installing and configuring Venice software (including MCL) can be found in the file C:\MicrosoftResearchMesh\Venice\readme.txt.

How to uninstall the software

For the uninstallation instructions of Disks 2-5, please see the documentation included on those disks. This section will focus on Disk 1.

To remove any of the three software components (MCL, Venice, Virtual WiFi) that were installed using Disk 1, please use "Add or Remove Programs" in the Control Panel for Windows XP. The three items are listed in Add or Remove Programs as follows, and each must be uninstalled individually:

• Microsoft Research Mesh Connectivity Layer
• Microsoft Research Mesh Venice
• Microsoft Research Mesh Virtual WIFI

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