Integrating ns-3 model construction, description, preprocessing, execution, and visualization

Authors:
Peter D. Barnes, Jr.;Betty B. Abelev;Eddy Banks;James M. Brase;David R. Jefferson;Sergei Nikolaev;Steven G. Smith;Ron A. Soltz
Affiliations:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Year:
2013

Citing 5
Cited 0

The Georgia Tech Network Simulator

MoMeTools '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Models, methods and tools for reproducible network research
Measuring ISP topologies with rocketfuel

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Simulation of large scale networks II: large-scale network simulations with GTNetS

Proceedings of the 35th conference on Winter simulation: driving innovation
Yet another network simulator

WNS2 '06 Proceeding from the 2006 workshop on ns-2: the IP network simulator
An overview of the OMNeT++ simulation environment

Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Simulation tools and techniques for communications, networks and systems & workshops

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

There are many examples of meta-languages to describe computer network models, experiment designs, data formats, and visualization parameters. It is clear that the field recognizes the importance and benefits of a concise, portable and precise problem description, abstracted from the native representation used by any specific modeling or visualization framework. Yet none of the prior efforts have achieved widespread adoption. In this paper we discuss some of the issues in developing a model abstraction of wide utility. We survey the various communities that would benefit from such an abstraction, a range of use cases, and some of the semantic difficulties encountered. We propose a path forward to address the needs of various parts of the ns3 ecosystem, in a way that can be generalized to other network simulation frameworks and communities.