3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Research Article

A new event-driven network simulator for Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTNs)

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8650,
        author={Euiyul  Ko and Hanjin  Park and Ikjun  Yeom},
        title={A new event-driven network simulator for Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTNs)},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network Event-driven simulator Simulator validation},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8650}
    }
    
  • Euiyul Ko
    Hanjin Park
    Ikjun Yeom
    Year: 2010
    A new event-driven network simulator for Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTNs)
    SIMUTOOLS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8650
Euiyul Ko1,*, Hanjin Park1,*, Ikjun Yeom2,*
  • 1: Dept. of Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.
  • 2: Information & Communication Eng., Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea.
*Contact email: key@cnlab.kaist.ac.kr, hjpark@cnlab.kaist.ac.kr, ikjun@skku.edu

Abstract

As wireless networking technologies have evolved, wireless networks are deployed in wider areas. In some of them, end-to-end paths may not be guaranteed due to high mobility or low density of network nodes. Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs) or Intermittently Connected Networks (ICNs) are proposed to handle packet delivery in those networks. In DTNs, network simulation may play a critical role for developing new technologies since it is very expensive and time-consuming to perform real experiments. In this paper, we present a new simulation tool for DTNs. This tool is developed with an event-driven manner to accommodate discrete events in packet delivery processes in DTNs, and also it is highly flexible and easily extensible for developing new protocols. We validate the tool with well-known mathematical models of DTNs.