Steady-state simulation of queueing processes: survey of problems and solutions
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Simulation Modeling and Analysis
Simulation Modeling and Analysis
Advances in Network Simulation
Computer
The design and implementation of the NCTUns 1.0 network simulator
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
The Georgia Tech Network Simulator
MoMeTools '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Models, methods and tools for reproducible network research
An XML Description Language for Web-Based Network Simulation
DS-RT '03 Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
Simulation of large scale networks I: simulation of large-scale networks using SSF
Proceedings of the 35th conference on Winter simulation: driving innovation
MANET simulation studies: the incredibles
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review - Special Issue on Medium Access and Call Admission Control Algorithms for Next Generation Wireless Networks.: The Digital Library version of this issue has a corrected special issue title compared to the one in the print version of the issue.
A Visualization and Analysis Tool for NS-2 Wireless Simulations: iNSpect
MASCOTS '05 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
A tool for packaging and exchanging simulation results
valuetools '06 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Performance evaluation methodolgies and tools
A module-based wireless node for NS-2
WNS2 '06 Proceeding from the 2006 workshop on ns-2: the IP network simulator
An integrated framework for enabling effective data collection and statistical analysis with ns-2
WNS2 '06 Proceeding from the 2006 workshop on ns-2: the IP network simulator
WNS2 '06 Proceeding from the 2006 workshop on ns-2: the IP network simulator
ns2-MIRACLE: a modular framework for multi-technology and cross-layer support in network simulator 2
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Performance evaluation methodologies and tools
Work smarter, not harder: guidelines for designing simulation experiments
Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come
Enhancing the Credibility of Wireless Network Simulations with Experiment Automation
WIMOB '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Wireless & Mobile Computing, Networking & Communication
On credibility of simulation studies of telecommunication networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
A framework for large-scale simulations and output result analysis with ns-2
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
A 2k · r factorial analysis tool for ns2measure
Proceedings of the Fourth International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
Ensuring reproducibility through tool-based simulation process management
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
A flexible and extensible architecture for experimental model validation
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Visual analytics for stochastic simulation in cell biology
i-KNOW '11 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies
Safe: simulation automation framework for experiments
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
GUISE - a tool for GUIding simulation experiments
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
GUISE - a tool for GUIding simulation experiments
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
SESSL: A domain-specific language for simulation experiments
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
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Simulation has been an important resource for functional and performance analyses of computer networks. Although the number of widely adopted network simulators is small, new ones continue to be created to address gaps in the functionality of existing tools. It can be argued, however, that the greatest need of the scientific community is to raise the credibility of published simulation studies. In this paper, we show that this need can be addressed by enabling network simulators to provide fool-proof automation of the experimental process. Ideally, the simulator's interface would provide users with an environment to minimize set up time for experiments and to guarantee their reproducibility, and to safeguard the statistical rigor of data analysis. We demonstrate that advances toward this goal have been made by three different tools. Our contributions in this paper culminate with the derivation of requirements for automation tools from recent literature and from our own experience in tool construction. Once these requirements are fulfilled, network simulation tools can have a stronger impact in education, in carrying out large simulation studies, and in enhancing the credibility of simulation results.