Yet another network simulator

Mathieu  Lacage; Thomas R.  Henderson

1st International ICST Workshop on ns-2: The IP Network Simulator

Research Article

Yet another network simulator

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    author={Mathieu  Lacage and Thomas R.  Henderson},
    title={Yet another network simulator},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on ns-2: The IP Network Simulator},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={WNS2},
    year={2012},
    month={4},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1145/1190455.1190467}
}

Mathieu Lacage
Thomas R. Henderson
Year: 2012
Yet another network simulator
WNS2
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1190455.1190467

Mathieu Lacage¹^,*, Thomas R. Henderson²^,*

1: INRIA, Planete Project, 2004 route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis, FR.
2: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

*Contact email: mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr, tomhend@u.washington.edu

Abstract

We report on the design objectives and initial design of a new discrete-event network simulator for the research community. Creating Yet Another Network Simulator (yans, http://yans.inria.fr/yans) is not the sort of prospect network researchers are happy to contemplate, but this effort may be timely given that ns-2 is considering a major revision and is evaluating new simulator cores. We describe why we did not choose to build on existing tools such as ns-2, GTNetS, and OPNET, outline our functional requirements, provide a high-level view of the architecture and core components, and describe a new IEEE 802.11 model provided with yans.

Published: 2012-04-05
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1190455.1190467