NEST: a network simulation and prototyping testbed
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on simulation
Principles of Discrete Event Simulation
Principles of Discrete Event Simulation
REAL: A Network Simulator
TOSSIM: accurate and scalable simulation of entire TinyOS applications
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Simulation of large scale networks II: large-scale network simulations with GTNetS
Proceedings of the 35th conference on Winter simulation: driving innovation
JiST: an efficient approach to simulation using virtual machines: Research Articles
Software—Practice & Experience
WNS2 '06 Proceeding from the 2006 workshop on ns-2: the IP network simulator
Simulation of MANETs: a qualitative comparison between JiST/SWANS and ns-2
MobiEval '07 Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on System evaluation for mobile platforms
Simulation of ad hoc networks: ns-2 compared to JiST/SWANS
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Simulation tools and techniques for communications, networks and systems & workshops
An overview of the OMNeT++ simulation environment
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Simulation tools and techniques for communications, networks and systems & workshops
FlowMonitor: a network monitoring framework for the network simulator 3 (NS-3)
Proceedings of the Fourth International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
Towards a taxonomy of simulation tools for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Performance and scalability evaluation of the Castalia wireless sensor network simulator
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Design and performance evaluation of a conservative parallel discrete event core for GES
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Architecture, design and source code comparison of ns-2 and ns-3 network simulators
SpringSim '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference
Policy-driven network simulation: a resilience case study
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SDL code generation for network simulators
SAM'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on System analysis and modeling: about models
Simulation of vehicular ad-hoc networks: Challenges, review of tools and recommendations
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
TapRouter: an emulating framework to run real applications on simulated mobile ad hoc network
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Simulation Symposium
Evaluating network simulators as extensions of real network testbeds
Proceedings of the 14th Communications and Networking Symposium
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Modeling and simulation of vehicular networks
Proceedings of the first ACM international symposium on Design and analysis of intelligent vehicular networks and applications
An evaluation of the network simulators in large-scale distributed simulations
Proceedings of the first international workshop on High performance computing, networking and analytics for the power grid
Towards the simulation of energy-efficient resilience management
Proceedings of the 4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Distribution of parallel discrete-event simulations in GES: core design and optimizations
Proceedings of the 4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Destination-sequenced distance vector (DSDV) routing protocol implementation in ns-3
Proceedings of the 4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
On the credibility of wireless sensor network simulations: evaluation of intrusion detection system
Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
A position-based routing module for simulation of VANETs in ns-3
Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Geographical routing implementation in ns3
Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Dynamic source routing (DSR) protocol implementation in ns-3
Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Conservative Distributed Discrete Event Simulation on Amazon EC2
CCGRID '12 Proceedings of the 2012 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (ccgrid 2012)
Adaptive video-aware FEC-based mechanism with unequal error protection scheme
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
End-to-end single and multiple flows fairness in mobile ad-hoc networks
Journal of Mobile Multimedia
Performance of distributed ns-3 network simulator
Proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Transactional traffic generator implementation in ns-3
Proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
An XG-PON module for the NS-3 network simulator
Proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Cross-Layer FEC-Based mechanism for packet loss resilient video transmission
DataTraffic Monitoring and Analysis
Advances in Engineering Software
Reverse back-off mechanism for safety vehicular ad hoc networks
Ad Hoc Networks
Investigation of TCP and UDP multiple-flow traffic in wireless mobile ad-hoc networks
Journal of High Speed Networks
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A widespread methodology for performance analysis in the field of communication systems engineering is network simulation. While ns-2 has established itself as virtually the standard network simulation tool, other network simulators have gained more and more attention during the last years. In this paper, we briefly survey new developments in the field of network simulation and conduct a performance comparison study by implementing an identical simulation set-up in five simulators, namely ns-2, OMNet++, ns-3, SimPy and JiST/SWANS. Our results reveal large differences according to both run-time performance and memory usage.