多网络模拟工具综述：NS2、NS3、OPNET等的优势与选择指南

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本文是一篇关于网络模拟工具的调查研究，发表在2012年6月的《国际计算机与通信工程高级研究杂志》(International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering, ISSN: 2278-1021)上，由Saba Siraj女士、Ajay Kumar Gupta先生和Rinku-Badgujar女士共同撰写。在日益复杂的网络研究领域，实时网络构建往往耗费大量时间和资金，因此实际环境中的全网络部署既不便捷也不经济。网络模拟器作为一种关键工具，能帮助研究人员测试网络在现实场景下的性能，极大地减少了测试时间和成本，简化了实施过程。文章主要探讨了不同网络模拟器的主要特性，包括但不限于NS2 (Network Simulator 2)，NS3 (Network Simulator 3)，OPNET，NetSim，OMNeT++，REAL和J-Sim等。每种工具都有其独特的优点和适用场景。NS2以其灵活性和广泛的应用范围而著名，适合于原型设计和研究；NS3则是一个更先进的仿真器，支持IPv6和SDN等新技术，适用于高级网络研究；OPNET是商业软件，提供强大的网络模型库，适合复杂系统建模；NetSim是一个图形用户界面友好且易于使用的工具，适用于教育和快速原型设计；OMNeT++是一个开源框架，强调模块化和可扩展性，适用于多层网络和实时系统的仿真；REAL提供了实时网络模拟，适合于验证实时网络协议；J-Sim则以其简单易用和对Java的支持而受到欢迎。作者希望通过这篇综述，为那些在网络研究中面临选择合适模拟器挑战的人提供有价值的参考资源。了解这些工具的优缺点有助于研究者根据项目需求和特定研究目标来确定最适合的网络模拟器，从而提高研究效率并节省资源。因此，本文不仅涵盖了网络模拟的基本概念，还深入剖析了各种工具的实际应用价值，是网络工程领域的一个实用指南。

ISSN : 2278 – 1021

International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering

Vol. 1, Issue 4, June 2012

Network Simulation Tools Survey

Mrs. Saba Siraj

, Mr. Ajay Kumar Gupta

, Mrs Rinku-Badgujar

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PGMCOE, Wagholi, Pune

1, 2, 3

Abstract—

In the network research area, establishing of network in a real time scenario is very difficult. A single test bed takes a large amount of

time and cost. So implementation of a whole network in real world is not easily possible and very costly to. The simulator helps the network

developer to check whether the network is able to work in the real time. Thus both the time and cost of testing the functionality of network

have been reduced and implementations are made easy. In this paper, we introduce the main features of different simulator and consider their

advantages and disadvantages. We hope this survey prove to be a good reference source for those people who feel difficult to select the

appropriate network simulators for their research.

Keywords: Network Simulator, NS

, NS

, OPNET, NetSim, OMNeT++, REAL, J-Sim and QualNet

I. INTRODUCTION

Simulation is one of the important technologies in modern

time. The simulation in computer can model hypothetical and

real-life objects on a computer so that it can be studied. The

network is also simulated on the computer.

A network simulator is a technique of implementing the

network on the computer. Through this the behavior of the

network is calculated either by network entities

interconnection using mathematical formulas, or by capturing

and playing back observations from a production network.

“The Network Simulator provides an integrated, versatile,

easy-to-use GUI-based network designer tool to design and

simulate a network with SNMP, TL1, TFTP, FTP, Telnet

and Cisco IOS device.”[3]

Network simulator allows the researchers to test the scenarios

that are difficult or expensive to simulate in real world. It

particularly useful to test new networking protocols or to

changes the existing protocols in a controlled and reproducible

environment. One can design different network topologies

using various types of nodes (hosts, hubs, bridges, routers and

mobile units etc.)

The network simulators are of different types which can be

compared on the basis of: range (from the very simple to the

very complex), specifying the nodes and the links between

those nodes and the traffic between the nodes, specify

everything about the protocols used to handle traffic in a

network, graphical applications (allow users to easily visualize

the workings of their simulated environment.), text-based

applications (permit more advanced forms of customization)

and programming-oriented tools (providing a

programming framework that customizes to create an

application that simulates the networking environment to be

tested.) [2]

There are different network simulators with different features.

Some of the network simulator are OPNET, NS

, NS

NetSim, OMNeT++, REAL, J-Sim and QualNet. In this paper

we are working on some of the simulator.

(Network Simulator version2): NS

is a discrete event

simulator targeted at networking research. It provides support

for simulation of TCP, routing, and multicast protocols over

all networks (wired and wireless).

(Network Simulator version3): NS

is also an open sourced

discrete-event network simulator which targets primarily for

research and educational use. NS

is licensed under the GNU

GPLv2 license, and is available for research and development.

[1]

OPNET (Optimized Network Engineering Tools): It is

extensive and powerful simulation software with wide variety

of possibilities to simulate entire heterogeneous networks with

various protocols

NETSIM (Network Based Environment for Modelling and

Simulation): It is an application that simulates Cisco Systems

networking hardware and software and is designed to aid the

user in learning the Cisco IOS command structure.

OMNET++ (Optical Micro-Networks Plus Plus): It is an

extensible, modular, component-based C++ simulation library

and framework, primarily for building network simulators.

JSIM (Java-based simulation): It is a Java-based simulation

system for building quantitative numeric models and

analyzing them with respect to experimental reference data.

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