Evaluating network simulators as extensions of real network testbeds

Authors:
Daniel Günther;Michel Steichen;Nathan Kerr;Paul Müller
Affiliations:
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany;University of Kaiserslautern, Germany;University of Kaiserslautern, Germany;University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Venue:
Proceedings of the 14th Communications and Networking Symposium
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Network testbeds are limited and often hard to configure. One method of overcoming these limitations is to use network simulators for extending a testbed. This paper aims to find out which network simulator is best able to extend a network testbed. Simulators are compared by their ability to provide a proposed environment in a network testbed. Both objective and subjective criteria are used in the comparison. The evaluated simulators are the well-known tools ns-3 and OMNeT++.