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On the Use of Discrete-Event Simulation in Computer Networks Analysis and Design

On the Use of Discrete-Event Simulation in Computer Networks Analysis and Design
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Author(s): Hussein Al-Bahadili (The Arab Academy for Banking & Financial Sciences, Jordan)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 25
Source title: Handbook of Research on Discrete Event Simulation Environments: Technologies and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Evon M. O. Abu-Taieh (The Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences, Jordan)and Asim A. El-Sheikh (Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sector, Jordan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-774-4.ch019

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Abstract

This chapter presents a description of a newly developed research-level computer network simulator, which can be used to evaluate the performance of a number of flooding algorithms in ideal and realistic mobile ad hoc network (MANET) environments. It is referred to as MANSim. The simulator is written in C++ programming language and it consists of four main modules: network, mobility, computational, and algorithm modules. This chapter describes the philosophy behind the simulator and explains its internal structure. The new simulator can be characterized as: a process-oriented discrete-event simulator using terminating simulation approach and stochastic input-traffic pattern. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness and flexibility of MANSim, it was used to study the performance of five flooding algorithms, these as: pure flooding, probabilistic flooding, LAR-1, LAR-1P, and OMPR. The simulator demonstrates an excellent accuracy, reliability, and flexibility to be used as a cost-effective tool in analyzing and designing wireless computer networks in comparison with analytical modeling and experimental tests. It can be learned quickly and it is sufficiently powerful, comprehensive, and extensible to allow investigation of a considerable range of problems of complicated geometrical configuration, mobility patterns, probability density functions, and flooding algorithms.

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