A crucial step during the design and engineering of communication systems is the estimation of their performance and behavior; especially for mathematically complex or highly dynamic systems network simulation is particularly useful.This book focuses on tools, modeling principles and state-of-the art models for discrete-event based network simulations, the standard method applied todayin academia and industry for performance evaluation of new network designs and architectures. The focus of the tools part is on two distinct simulations engines: OmNet++ and ns-3, while it also deals with issues like parallelization,software integration and hardware simulations. The parts dealing with modeling and models for network simulations are split into a wireless section and a section dealing with higher layers. The wireless section covers all essential modeling principles for dealing with physical layer, link layer and wireless channel behavior. In addition, detailed models for prominent wireless systems like IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.16 are presented. In the part on higher layers, classical modeling approaches for the network layer, the transport layer and theapplication layer are presented in addition to modeling approaches for peer-to-peer networks and topologies of networks. The modeling parts are accompaniedwith catalogues of model implementations for a large set of different simulation engines. The book is aimed at master students and PhD students of computerscience and electrical engineering as well as at researchers and practitioners from academia and industry that are dealing with network simulation at any layer of the protocol stack." Explores essential simulation models for wired and wireless networks Discusses in depth modeling methodology for all componentsof the network stack plus effects of the system environment (such as mobilityor wireless propagation) Provides a detailed overview of state-of-the-art tools and development environments for network simulation Holistic approach that covers models for the entire protocol stack from the application layer to the physical layer
- ISBN: 978-3-642-12330-6
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 20/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés