1st International ICST Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet

Research Article

QoS Aware Multicast Routing Protocols Evaluation through Simulation

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.3084,
        author={Antonio Costa and Maria Jo\"{a}o Nicolau and Joaquim Macedo and Alexandre Santos},
        title={QoS Aware Multicast Routing Protocols Evaluation through Simulation},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={QOSIM},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={NS2 Multicast Routing Quality of Service Simulation Tools},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.3084}
    }
    
  • Antonio Costa
    Maria João Nicolau
    Joaquim Macedo
    Alexandre Santos
    Year: 2010
    QoS Aware Multicast Routing Protocols Evaluation through Simulation
    QOSIM
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.3084
Antonio Costa1,*, Maria João Nicolau2,*, Joaquim Macedo1,*, Alexandre Santos1,*
  • 1: Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal.
  • 2: Departamento de Sistemas de Informação, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal.
*Contact email: costa@di.uminho.pt, joao@dsi.uminho.pt, macedo@di.uminho.pt, alex@di.uminho.pt

Abstract

In networking research, the simulation is often the single way to overcome the lack of equipment needed for laboratory setup of complex experimental topologies, with diverse traffic pattern scenarios. Even for simpler topologies and traffic scenarios, the simulation remains attractive due to the available facilities on data collection, graphics generation and step by step analysis of different protocol machines. Inter-domain multicast scenarios, where heterogeneous QoS requirements should be considered, is a particular example where both complexity and resources availability justify the use of simulation. This paper reports the experience gained by the usage of simulation tools in multicast routing with QoS. It is not focused on the real simulation results reported but on the process used to obtain them. NS-2 has been used as the base of this work.