The project is a gate way "one wireless network protocol connects devices work using another protocol".
What software and hardware tools that can I use to measure data flow?
I would suggest to use WireShark software tool to monitor the data flow of your configured network.
You may Also use Exata Software which provide simulation and Emulation both.
Wireshark gives you only status or snapshots of transmitted data but not flow of data. best practice to visualize real time data transmission/packet in Wireless Network is through NAM animator in NS-2 or NS-3 simulator.
I agree with Mr. Walikar. However, if you have implemented a real system, then how would you measure the data flow. You must need a software tool through which you can measure the data flow. If you are implementing something via simulation, NS-2 or NS-3 is quite better. I also use NS-3 for my work, which is simulation-based.
So, again, I think WireShark is one of the most useful software tools for measuring the real-time data traffic.
I am not sure if I understand, so, I think you need to first check the coverage. Secondly, it is interesting to do some layer 3 tests with sintetic traffic generators (like iperf), therefore, you can check throughput, packet loss, latency and other metrics.
As Mr. Walker has pointed out you can use network simulator NS-2 or NS-3. Since you are using at the gate level, it is important to measure the delay, throughput, latency and the effect of noise on the signal.
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