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THE FIRST STEP TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH NETWORK SIMULATOR (NS) Neda Mohammadizadeh Cooperative sub-group BBCR group Feb 2012 2 References http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/User_Information http://nile.wpi.edu/NS/

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THE FIRST STEP TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH NETWORK SIMULATOR (NS)

Neda Mohammadizadeh Cooperative sub-group BBCR group Feb 2012

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References

  • http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/User_Information
  • http://nile.wpi.edu/NS/
  • http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/tutorial/index.html
  • Introduction to NS2(PPT), Prepared by Changyong Jung

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Outline

  • Introduction on Network Simulator
  • Installation
  • Architecture of NS-2
  • OTcl
  • Simulation Examples

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Introduction

  • Network Simulator (NS)
  • Discrete event network simulator
  • Implements
  • Transport layer protocols such as TCP ( reno, tahoe, vegas, sack) and

UPD

  • Router queue management mechanism such as Drop Tail, RED
  • Routing algorithms such as Dijkstra and Ad-hoc Routing (DSDV, DSR,

AODV, TORA)

  • MAC layer protocols (802.11, 802.3, TDMA)
  • Sensor Network (diffusion, gaf), Satellite protocols, and many others
  • Traffic source behavior such as FTP, Telnet, Web, CBR and VBR
  • NS versions:
  • NS-1, NS-2, NS-3

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Introduction

  • NS-1:
  • LNBL Simulator tool
  • Developed by the network research group at the Lawrence

Berkeley National Laboratory (1989).

  • Derived from REAL simulator
  • Simulation description language: TCL

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Introduction

  • NS-2:
  • Object oriented (OTcl instead of TCL)
  • Built in C++ and provides a simulation interface through OTcl
  • Developed by UC Berkeley
  • Difficult for the first time user
  • Few user friendly manuals
  • Needs scripting language, queuing theory and modeling techniques

knowledge

  • Complaint about inconsistent results
  • BUGs!!!

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Introduction

  • NS-3:
  • Maintaining backward compatibility with ns-2? (2005)
  • YANS (Yet Another Network Simulator) -> NS-3 base
  • NS-3.1 (2008) , NS-3.11(2011)
  • Built in C++ and Phyton
  • Make it simpler
  • No support for some protocols which were supported in ns-2

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Installation

  • http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Downloading_and_install

ing_ns-2

  • Installing on Unix-based systems
  • Installing on Windows using Cygwin
  • Installing on Mac
  • The following “How to install” slides are brought from

Introduction to NS2(PPT), Prepared by Changyong Jung

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How to Install

  • Window XP-
  • Go to Website:

http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Running_Ns_and_Nam_Under_Windows_9x/2000/XP_Using_Cygwin

  • Read “Requirements and Installation Tips” Carefully.
  • Download cygwin.exe from http://www.cygwin.com/
  • Click the “cygwin.exe”

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How to Install

  • Cygwin Installation

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How to Install

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How to Install

  • Select browse for “cygwin” file( I selected as “default”)

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How to Install

  • Local package directory (I recommend c:\cygwin).

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How to Install

  • Select to Install all ( I recommend it)
  • You can select “install”, “default”, “uninstall”, “install”, and “reinstall” behind the first

line “all”. If you select “install”, then all sub items will be automatically selected. Otherwise you may lose some items.

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How to Install

  • Select download site

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How to Install

  • Installing

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How to Install

  • Finishing Installing

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How to Install

  • NS2 Installation
  • Download ns-allinone-2.29.2.tar.gz from Website and

Save it to the c:/cygwin /usr/local

  • Unpack it: tar xvfz ns-allinone-2.29.2.tar.gz
  • Click on desktop icon “cygwin”

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How to Install

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How to Install

  • Type “cd ..” to go to the upper folder(“cd” must be low case. And

there is one space between “d” and “.”)

  • Type “cd ..” again.

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How to Install

  • “cd usr”, go to folder “usr”
  • “cd local”, go to folder “local”

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How to Install

  • Find “install.exe”

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How to Install

  • Start to run the installation “./install”

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How to Install

  • Installing

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How to Install

  • Installing

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How to Install

  • Configure system variables and library paths
  • After finishing installing, following window appears

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How to Install

  • Configure system variables
  • Go to “My computer” and click “view system information”

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How to Install

  • Go to “advanced” Tab and Click “Environmental variables”

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How to Install

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How to Install

  • Highlight “path” which is “system variable” box and press the “Edit”

button.

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How to Install

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How to Install

  • Add the following path separated with “;” make sure to

not change the existing path. /usr/local/ns-allinone-2.29.2/bin /usr/local/ns-allinone-2.29.2/tcl8.4.11/unix /usr/local/ns-allinone-2.29.2/tk8.4.11/unix

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How to Install

  • Go to cygwin and type the following content

Export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ns-allinone- 2.29/otcl-1.11 Export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ns-allinone-2.29/lib Export TCL_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ns-allinone- 2.29/tcl8.4.11/library

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How to Install

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NS-2 Architecture

NS Simulator Library Network Component Objects Network Setup Modules Event Scheduler Objects

  • The event scheduler and the basic network component objects in the

data path are written and compiled using C++.

  • To use NS, you program in OTcl script language

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Plumbing

Network Setup:

  • Creating possible data paths among network objects.
  • The power of NS comes from plumbing.

Event is a packet ID that is unique for a packet

  • scheduled time
  • the pointer to an object that handles the event.

An event scheduler

  • keeps track of simulation time
  • fires all the events in the event queue

Event Scheduling

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NS-2 Architecture

OTcl and C++ http://nile.wpi.edu/NS/

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OTcl

Executing a test file: ns ex-tcl.tcl Results:

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Event Scheduler

http://nile.wpi.edu/NS/

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  • 1. Real-time scheduler
  • 2. Non-real-time scheduler
  • List
  • Heap
  • Calendar

. . . set ns [new Simulator] $ns use-scheduler Heap $ns at 300.5 "complete_sim" . . . proc complete_sim {} { . . . }

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Network Component

Node:

  • Unicast or

Multicast

  • Routing Protocol

Link:

  • Tracing
  • Queue monitor

Unicast

  • $ns rtproto type
  • type: Static, Session, DV, cost, multi-path

Multicast

  • $ns multicast (right after set $ns [new Scheduler])
  • $ns mrtproto type
  • type: CtrMcast, DM, ST, BST

create-trace {type file src dst}

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Partial OTcl class hierarchy

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http://nile.wpi.edu/NS/

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Other important tasks

Post simulation: Trace analysis Queue Monitor Troubleshooting: Installation problems Simulation Problems

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NS Results

Network Animator (NAM)

  • A graphical simulation display tool
  • Developed as a part of VINT project
  • Has a nice graphical user interface
  • Can graphically present information

NS Simulation Text-based results NAM

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Simulation Example

http://nile.wpi.edu/NS/

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Where to find…

/ns-2/tcl/lib

ns-lib.tcl: The simulator class and most of its member function definitions ns-default.tcl: The default values for configurable parameters ns-packet.tcl: The packet header format initialization implementation

  • ther OTcl files: implementation of compound network objects or the

front end (control part) of network objects

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Summary

Network Simulator (NS): is an object-oriented discrete-event network simulator. Implements different network protocols. is written in C++ and OTcl. (NS-2) It was the first step to be familiar with NS. Keep going…

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Thank You

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