Advanced Network Simulations Simplified

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Getting Started with Network Simulator-3 (ns-3)

The main reasons for using network simulators are setting up a variety of wired or wireless networks and analyzing their protocols and application performance systematically. Conducting networking experiments is highly complex and incurs a lot of cost with real systems. Network Simulator-3 (ns-3) is an open source simulation platform written in C++ for conducting systematic experiments on wired and/or wireless networks. ns-3 provides important models, such as core, internet, and Ethernet-related modules, routing, applications, and flow-level statistics monitoring for setting up network topologies and conducting basic simulation experiments. Moreover, ns-3 offers important modules such as mobility ...