[Battlemesh] ns-3 - Network Simulator

[fboehm]

I think this is the basic difference between a network emulator and a 
network simulator, right?

The emulator runs real code in a virtual environment. The simulator runs 
code that simulates the behavior of the real code in relation to it's 
environment.

What I like about the simulation is that it technically can also 
simulate mutual interference in mesh networks. Not sure if and how this 
could be done with emulators. They might only have more like static 
settings for latency, jitter, packet loss with a predefined variance.

Maybe somebody can confirm or correct.

Franz

Am 16.11.15 um 01:15 schrieb leonardo:
> On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 10:23 +0200, Jonathan Morton wrote:
>> Ns-3 and its predecessor ns-2 are pretty well known in the network
>> research community.
>
>
> Yes,
> and as far as I know, its main limitation is that you have to write
> code specifically for NS-3, which you can not re-use in real world. In
> our university (Trento) we use mininet, which is ok if you're
> developing things >= layer 3. There are some ideas to mix it with NS3
> channel model [1], but we're not in it still.
>
> leonardo.
>
> [1] https://www.nsnam.org/wiki/HOWTO_Use_Linux_Containers_to_set_up_vir
> tual_networks
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