Abstract
It is a very common practice to use network simulators for testing different network performance parameters before the real-life deployment of such a network. Apart from ns-2, few other recent network simulators have come into existence today and are gaining in more popularity. In this paper, we survey some of the widespread network simulators that are in use today, and try to evaluate their performance over certain parameters by setting up identical network simulation scenarios.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Fisherman, G.S.: Principles of Discrete Event Simulation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York (1978)
Schwartz, D.J., Yemini, Y., Bacon, D.: NEST: A network simulation and prototyping testbed. Commun. ACM 33(10), 63–74 (1990)
Keshav, S.: Real: A network simulator, Technical report. University of California at Berkley, CA, USA (1998)
The Network Simulator ns-2, http://isi.edu/nsnam/ns
Xue, Y., Lee, H.S., Yang, M., Kumarawadu, P., Ghenniwa, H., Shen, W.: Performance evaluation of ns-2 simulator for wireless sensor networks. In: Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2007), pp. 1372–1375 (April 2007)
Henderson, T.R., Roy, S., Floyd, S., Riley, G.F.: ns-3 project goals. In: WNS2 2006: Proceeding From the 2006 Workshop on ns-2: the IP Network Simulator, p. 13. ACM, New York (2006)
Riley, G.: PDNS project website, http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/compass/pdns/
Henderson, T.R., Roy, S., Floyd, S., Riley, G.F.: ns-3 project goals. In: WNS2 2006: Proceeding From the 2006 Workshop on ns-2: the IP Network Simulator, p. 13. ACM Press, New York (2006)
Varga, A., Hornig, R.: An overview of the OMNeT++ simulation environment. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems, SIMUTools 2008 (March 2008)
Barr, R., Haas, Z.J., van Renesse, R.: JiST: an efficient approach to simulation using virtual machines. Softw. Pract. Exper. 35(6), 539–576 (2005)
Bagrodia, R., Chen, Y.A., et al.: PARSEC: A Parallel Simulation Environment for Complex System. ULCA technical report (1997)
Levis, P., Lee, N., Welsh, M., Culler, D.: TOSSIM: accurate and scalable simulation of entire TinyOS applications. In: Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2003 (2003)
Huang, P., Heidemann, J.: Minimizing Routing State for Light-weight Network simulation. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems. IEEE, Cincinnati (August 2001)
Riley, G.: Large scale network simulations with GTNetS. In: Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference (2003)
ns-3 Overview, http://www.nsnam.org/docs/release/3.12/manual/ns-3-manual.pdf
OMNet++ overview, http://www.omnetpp.org/
Pham, H.N., Pediaditakis, D., Boulis, A.: From simulation to real deployments in wsn and back. In: Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2007), pp. 1–6 (June 2007)
JiST overview, http://jist.ece.cornell.edu/
Barr, R., Haas, Z.J., van Renesse, R.: An efficient, unifying approach to simulation using virtual machines. PhD dissertation, Cornell University (May 2004)
Lewis, J., Neumann, U.: Performance of Java versus C++, http://www.idiom.com/_zilla/Computer/javaCbenchmark.html
Nicol, D.M.: Scalability of network simulators revisited. In: Proceedings of the Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference, Orlando, FL (February 2003)
Albeseder, D., Fuegger, M.: Small PC-Network Simulation a comprehensive performance case study. Research Report 77/2005, TU Wien, Institutfúr Technische Informatik (2005)
Weingartner, E., vom Lehn, H., Wehrle, K.: A Performance Comparison of recent network simulators. RWTC Aachen University, Germany
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer-Verlag GmbH Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Pal, D. (2012). A Comparative Analysis of Modern Day Network Simulators. In: Wyld, D., Zizka, J., Nagamalai, D. (eds) Advances in Computer Science, Engineering & Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 167. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30111-7_46
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30111-7_46
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-30110-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-30111-7
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)