Network modelling and simulation tools

Rahman, Muhammad Azizur; Pakštas, A.; Wang, Frank Z.

doi:10.1016/j.simpat.2009.02.005

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“…A wide variety of simulators and emulators is presented, lot more is available in the literature, among many (Egea-López et al 2005;Singh et al 2008;Rahman et al 2009;Imran et al 2010;Musznicki and Zwierzykowski 2012).…”

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Simulators and Emulators for WSNs

Fahmy

2016

Signals and Communication Technology

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Simulation is acting … Acting is not typical of real-life. WSN Testbeds, Simulators, and EmulatorsTestbeds, simulators, and emulators, are effective tools to evaluate algorithms and protocols at design, development and implementation stages. Many of these tools are available, each with different features, characteristics, models and architectures for performance testing of WSNs. They are the focus of this book, as discussed in the previous chapter and accomplished in this one. It is arduous for a researcher or a practitioner to choose an appropriate tool for performance evaluation without the knowledge of the available tools, their features, as well as the pros and cons. Similarly, efforts to improve existing simulators or designing a new one require detailed understanding of useful tools readily available. This necessitates comprehensive horizontal and vertical analysis among competitors at different stages. For vertical validation of experiments, a singular approach for conducting simulation, emulation, and real world experiments in mobile ad hoc networks using a single tool is proposed in (Krop et al. 2007). As such, vertical analysis complements horizontal analysis that is performed by investigating different testbeds at almost the same level of abstraction. Recognizing the immense and diverse literature available, this chapter aims at clarifying in full details all concepts and features related to modeling and simulation, simulators and emulators.Studying and analyzing WSNs goes through different phases and approaches, starting theoretical by simulation, ending up practical via testbeds, or working midway as in emulation. The basic differentiation, as shown in Fig. 6.1, can be outlined in what follows (Coulson et al. 2012):• Physical testbeds as detailed in the previous chapter excel at high-fidelity evaluation of mature WSN designs, as well as detailed planning for real-world deployments. However, physical testbeds for WSN systems tend to be small in

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Section: Simulators and Emulatorsmentioning

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Simulators and Emulators for WSNs

Fahmy

2016

Signals and Communication Technology

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“…Apart from these works, other good surveys on different simulation tools for MANET (or any other wireless networks) can be found in [9,10].…”

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ViSim: A user-friendly graphical simulation tool for performance analysis of MANET routing protocols

Saquib

Sakib

Pathan

2011

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

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a b s t r a c tThe task of simulation is often complicated, and naive users often look for relatively easier solutions. In many cases, simulations are done with no visual output which makes them non-attractive. In this paper, we present ViSim; a new simulation tool that has a userfriendly graphical interface. ViSim could be useful for researchers, students, teachers in their work, and for the demonstration of various wireless network scenarios on computer screens. It could make the task of simulation more exciting and enhance the interest of the users by avoiding the need to use a complex command-only text interface. ViSim is not a simulation engine, rather it calls ns-2 simulations in the background and makes the task easy for the users to visualize the simulation in a Windows environment. Though ViSim is mainly a simulation demonstration tool, any user with knowledge of ns-2 and Tcl scripting also has the provision to make the necessary modifications and rapid configuration for any other MANET routing scenario. Using our simulation tool, we measured the performances of several Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) routing protocols. In this paper, we present the performance analysis of three prominent MANET routing protocols (DSDV, DSR and AODV) using our tool. Details of the various features of ViSim, brief descriptions of the selected routing protocols and their comparisons, and details about the experiments performed and the results obtained are presented in this work.

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“…A typical solution to overcome the above challenges should use modeling and simulation techniques [3].…”

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“…It is clear that almost all network simulation tools work in similar ways [3]. Current network simulation tools are inadequate for solving all the problems of a network [4].…”

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Design and implementation of a new MANET simulator model for AODV simulation

Tuncel¹,

Ekiz²,

Zengi̇n³

2016

Turk J Elec Eng & Comp Sci

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Abstract:Distributed systems, such as ad hoc networks, are composed of nodes communicating with each other using underlying wireless technologies. Communication protocols, connection technologies, traffic flows, and routing algorithms are very complex in the design process of ad hoc networks. Due to the challenges in current network simulators such as complexity, mobility, and scalability, studies on ad hoc networks are far beyond real life. For the purpose of overcoming the problems above, modeling and simulation tools are extremely significant in ad hoc research. In this study, for studying complexity, scalability, and adaptability aspect problems of mobile systems, a MANET model and its simulator

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Network modelling and simulation tools

Cited by 42 publications

References 33 publications

Simulators and Emulators for WSNs

Simulators and Emulators for WSNs

ViSim: A user-friendly graphical simulation tool for performance analysis of MANET routing protocols

Design and implementation of a new MANET simulator model for AODV simulation

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