TY - GEN
T1 - A performance comparison of open source network simulators for wireless networks
AU - Ur Rehman Khan, Atta
AU - Bilal, Sardar M.
AU - Othman, Mazliza
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Network simulation is the most useful and common methodology used to evaluate different network topologies without real world implementation. Network simulators are widely used by the research community to evaluate new theories and hypotheses. There are a number of network simulators, for instance, ns-2, ns-3, OMNET++, SWAN, OPNET, Jist, and GloMoSiM etc. Therefore, the selection of a network simulator for evaluating research work is a crucial task for researchers. The main focus of this paper is to compare the state-of-The-art, open source network simulators based on the following parameters: CPU utilization, memory usage, computational time, and scalability by simulating a MANET routing protocol, to identify an optimal network simulator for the research community.
AB - Network simulation is the most useful and common methodology used to evaluate different network topologies without real world implementation. Network simulators are widely used by the research community to evaluate new theories and hypotheses. There are a number of network simulators, for instance, ns-2, ns-3, OMNET++, SWAN, OPNET, Jist, and GloMoSiM etc. Therefore, the selection of a network simulator for evaluating research work is a crucial task for researchers. The main focus of this paper is to compare the state-of-The-art, open source network simulators based on the following parameters: CPU utilization, memory usage, computational time, and scalability by simulating a MANET routing protocol, to identify an optimal network simulator for the research community.
KW - MANET Routing Protocol
KW - Network simulators
KW - Simulation
KW - simulators comparison
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84876006182
U2 - 10.1109/ICCSCE.2012.6487111
DO - 10.1109/ICCSCE.2012.6487111
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84876006182
SN - 9781467331432
T3 - Proceedings - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Control System, Computing and Engineering, ICCSCE 2012
SP - 34
EP - 38
BT - Proceedings - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Control System, Computing and Engineering, ICCSCE 2012
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Control System, Computing and Engineering, ICCSCE 2012
Y2 - 23 November 2012 through 25 November 2012
ER -