NECO: NEtwork COding Simulator

Diogo Ferreira; Luísa Lima; João Barros

2nd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

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NECO: NEtwork COding Simulator

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2009.5646,
    author={Diogo Ferreira and Lu\^{\i}sa Lima and Jo\"{a}o Barros},
    title={NECO: NEtwork COding Simulator},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={network coding simulation topology random graph},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2009.5646}
}

Diogo Ferreira
Luísa Lima
João Barros
Year: 2010
NECO: NEtwork COding Simulator
SIMUTOOLS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2009.5646

Diogo Ferreira¹^,*, Luísa Lima¹^,*, João Barros¹^,*

1: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Departamento de Ciência de Computadores, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

*Contact email: dferreira@dcc.fc.up.pt, luisalima@dcc.fc.up.pt, jbarros@fe.up.pt

Abstract

We present NECO, a high-performance simulation framework dedicated to the evaluation of network coding based protocols. Its main features include (1) definition of graphs representing the topology (which can be generated randomly or pre-defined by means of a standard representation), (2) modular specification of network coding protocols, (3) visualization of the network operation and (4) extraction of key statistics. The simulator is entirely written in Python and can be easily extended to account for extra functionalities.

Keywords: network coding simulation topology random graph

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ICST
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2009.5646