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Hi Chony,

I really like your work. Myself I worked at France Telecom R&D and wrote a Wi-Fi simulator at the time. But I retired and abandoned my little project.

https://github.com/JPLeRouzic/IEEE-802.11-simulator

How do you see your project evolving? People in standardization bodies would be very interested by your project.

Good to see you like it! I have taken a quick look at your project, I think we both share similar purpose, to make it simple and understandable. I will definitely take more time to take a deeper look and do some research. I believe this will be able to evolve my project. Thanks for your appreciation. Best regards.

This is really cool. Was this just something you wanted to do, to scratch an itch, for work etc?

Good question! This is just something I want to do. But it didn't just randomly pop up in my mind. I'm a student, and I have taken the course about wireless network last semester. I got a project assignment to write a little simulation in Python, and here is the link https://github.com/chonyy/handoff-simulator.

I found it interesting while I'm building the little simulation in Python. And i think "What if I can visualize this simulation? It would be really cool!" So, I just built it during my holiday :)

Please do be aware there are difference between the visualizer and the simulator. The parameters in the simulator project is closer to our real world, so i have tuned some of it in this visualizer to make it more pleasing to the eyes.

Why not write all in Js then you don't need a server side? Plus much simpler code

Of course! The reason is that this visualizer is actually my first reactJS project. I used this visualizer idea as an opportunity to practice my reactJS skill. However, I appreciate your advice! I will try to remake one in pure vanilla js, it will also be a good practice for myself.

Actually I would not recommend vanilla Js. Just typescript

Why can't I move the base stations?

I like the idea! Will do! This is actually a really good advice, I will start working on it immediately. Thanks a lot!

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