[Battlemesh] ns-3 - Network Simulator

[leonardo]

On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 07:40 -0800, Tom Henderson wrote:
> On 11/16/2015 01:15 AM, leonardo wrote:

> Hi all,
> There is a framework in ns-3 called Direct Code Execution that allows
> one to run implementation code (C/C++ daemons, and/or the Linux
> network 
> kernel) from within the simulator.  For more details, see [1], [2]. 
>  For 
> example, quagga has been supported in this manner [3].

Thanks Tom for the pointers, really appreciated. 

l.

> 
> There has also been work integrating mininet [4] and CORE [5]
> emulators 
> with ns-3 lower layers.  Container integration has some advantages
> for 
> small network experiments, but the direct code execution support has 
> been shown to scale better and has the benefit of allowing one to
> debug 
> a network within a single address space, as described in [1].
> 
> Anyway, I thank Andreas for bringing some attention to your
> community, 
> in case it can be of any use.  We have an active forum on 
> ns-3-users at googlegroups.com if anyone has further questions after
> trying 
> it out, or feel free to contact me.
> 
> - Tom
> 
> [1] https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00880870v1/document
> 
> [2] 
> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumbe
> r=6766093
> 
> [3] https://www.nsnam.org/docs/dce/release/1.7/manual-quagga/html/ind
> ex.html
> 
> [4] https://github.com/mininet/mininet/wiki/Link-modeling-using-ns-3
> 
> [5] http://downloads.pf.itd.nrl.navy.mil/docs/core/core-html/ns3.html
> 
> 
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