A Performance Comparison of Network Simulators for Wireless Networks
Abstract
Network simulation is the most useful and common methodology used to evaluate different network to-pologies without real world implementation. Network simulators are widely used by the research community to evaluate new theories and hypotheses. There are a number of network simulators, for instance, ns-2, ns-3, OMNET++, SWAN, OPNET, Jist, and GloMoSiM etc. Therefore, the selection of a network simulator for evaluating research work is a crucial task for researchers. The main focus of this paper is to compare the state-of-the-art, open source network simulators based on the following parameters: CPU utilization, memory usage, computational time, and scalability by simulating a MANET routing protocol, to identify an optimal network simulator for the research community.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1307.4129,
title = {A Performance Comparison of Network Simulators for Wireless Networks},
author = {Atta ur Rehman Khana and Sardar M. Bilalb and Mazliza Othmana},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.4129},
year = {2013}
}