TY - GEN
T1 - A flexible object-oriented design of an event-driven wireless network simulator
AU - Jawhar, Imad
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Different simulation tools are available to the research community which can be used to validate, test and evaluate networking protocols. Such simulation software packages include OPNET, ns-2 and others. These programs are capable of performing relatively accurate simulations of networking architectures including wireless, ad hoc, and sensor networks. Although they are very useful for a wide range of experiments which involve performance evaluation of existing protocols, selecting them to verify and test the performance of new platforms and protocols that are not implemented in these programs tend to impose considerable restrictions and limitations. Therefore, implementing these protocols in existing simulator packages could be relatively difficult and time consuming. This paper presents an object-oriented framework to design an event-driven network simulator that can be used to evaluate different wireless networking architectures and protocols. The design of the simulator allows for a considerable increase in flexibility for the researcher who is able to include particular aspects and implementations of the corresponding protocols. The different classes that constitute the simulator application along with the main methods, and relationships are presented. In addition, design strategies for simulating node mobility using the popular Waypoint model are also presented.
AB - Different simulation tools are available to the research community which can be used to validate, test and evaluate networking protocols. Such simulation software packages include OPNET, ns-2 and others. These programs are capable of performing relatively accurate simulations of networking architectures including wireless, ad hoc, and sensor networks. Although they are very useful for a wide range of experiments which involve performance evaluation of existing protocols, selecting them to verify and test the performance of new platforms and protocols that are not implemented in these programs tend to impose considerable restrictions and limitations. Therefore, implementing these protocols in existing simulator packages could be relatively difficult and time consuming. This paper presents an object-oriented framework to design an event-driven network simulator that can be used to evaluate different wireless networking architectures and protocols. The design of the simulator allows for a considerable increase in flexibility for the researcher who is able to include particular aspects and implementations of the corresponding protocols. The different classes that constitute the simulator application along with the main methods, and relationships are presented. In addition, design strategies for simulating node mobility using the popular Waypoint model are also presented.
KW - Network simulation
KW - Object-oriented design
KW - Simulator design
KW - Wireless ad hoc and sensor network
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U2 - 10.1109/WTS.2009.5068942
DO - 10.1109/WTS.2009.5068942
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77951471096
SN - 9781424425884
T3 - 2009 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2009
BT - 2009 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2009
T2 - 2009 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2009
Y2 - 22 April 2009 through 24 April 2009
ER -