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Simulator Web Address Type Scale Network Impairments Network Topologies Advantages Disadvantages<br />

Shunra VE http://www.shun<br />

ra.com<br />

QualNet<br />

Developer<br />

http://www.qual<br />

net.com<br />

Netsim http://www.tetco<br />

s.com/s<strong>of</strong>tware.h<br />

tml<br />

Opnet http://www.opne<br />

t.com<br />

P2PRealm Developer site:<br />

GTNetS<br />

http://www.mit.j<br />

yu.fi/cheesefacto<br />

ry/<br />

http://www.ece.g<br />

atech.edu/resear<br />

ch/labs/MANIA<br />

CS/GTNetS/<br />

Nessi Information not<br />

available<br />

NS-2 http://www.isi.e<br />

du/nsnam/ns/nsbuild.html<br />

GloMoSim http://pcl.cs.ucla.<br />

edu/projects/glo<br />

mosim/GloMoSi<br />

mManual.html<br />

Commercial Enterprise Latency, bandwidth, jitter and packet loss,<br />

bandwidth congestion and utilization.<br />

Commercial Enterprise Evaluation <strong>of</strong> various protocols.<br />

Commercial<br />

and<br />

Academic<br />

Large scale Relative positions <strong>of</strong> stations,<br />

realistic modeling <strong>of</strong> signal propagation,<br />

collision handling and detection process<br />

Commercial Enterprise Link models such as bus and point-topoint,<br />

queuing service<br />

Open source Small scale Verify P2P network requirements,<br />

resource discovery<br />

Open source Large scale Packet tracing, queuing methods, statistical<br />

methods, random number generator etc.<br />

Open source Small scale Evaluation <strong>of</strong> new protocols.<br />

Table A 6 Summary <strong>of</strong> Network Simulators<br />

Open source Small scale Congestion control, transport protocols,<br />

queuing and routing algorithms, and<br />

multicast work.<br />

Open source Large scale Evaluation <strong>of</strong> various wireless network<br />

protocols includes models for the channel,<br />

transport, radio, MAC networks etc.<br />

71<br />

Point-to-point, NTier,<br />

hub and spoke, fully<br />

meshed networks.<br />

Wired and WLAN and<br />

WAN<br />

WLAN, Ethernet,<br />

TCP / IP, and ATM<br />

ATM, TCP, FDDI, IP,<br />

Ethernet, Frame<br />

Relay, and WLAN<br />

Wireless peer to peer<br />

(P2P)<br />

Point-to-Point, Shared<br />

and switched Ethernet,<br />

and Wireless links.<br />

Hardware based simulator, technical<br />

support, empirical model that uses real-life<br />

appliances provides better accuracy.<br />

Support thousands <strong>of</strong> nodes. Run on<br />

variety <strong>of</strong> OS an also on both 32 & 64 bit<br />

computing environment, <strong>of</strong>fers technical<br />

support, downloadable from the web.<br />

Compatible with both Windows and Linux<br />

environment.<br />

High level <strong>of</strong> modeling detail. The result<br />

parameters are comprehensive.<br />

Customizable Presentation <strong>of</strong> result<br />

diagrams is customizable. Easy to use<br />

GUI.<br />

Developed for optimizing neural networks<br />

used in P2P networks.<br />

The design <strong>of</strong> the GTNetS closely matches<br />

the design <strong>of</strong> real network protocol<br />

hardware and stacks.<br />

Wired and WLAN Developed to minimize the development<br />

time and ease <strong>of</strong> implementation.<br />

Routing, multicast and<br />

TCP protocols over<br />

wired and WLAN<br />

Free for research and teaching.<br />

Downloadable through website.<br />

WLAN Scalable simulator that support thousand <strong>of</strong><br />

network nodes.<br />

Needs networks infrastructure<br />

to be available before running<br />

Shunra.<br />

Lack <strong>of</strong> predefined model<br />

constructs. Lack <strong>of</strong> parameter<br />

documentation. The process is<br />

time consuming due to missing<br />

modularity and reusability.<br />

More <strong>of</strong> an educational network<br />

simulator.<br />

The parameter categorization is<br />

not transparent and confusing.<br />

There is insufficient<br />

documentation <strong>of</strong> attributes.<br />

Still in research. Only for P2P.<br />

No support available. Ongoing<br />

development.<br />

Only suitable for academic<br />

purposes.<br />

No support available. Poor<br />

usability<br />

Only for wireless networks

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