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Network Simulator (NS-2) Resource Page

• Network Simulator 2 (NS-2)
• Running Ns and Nam Under Windows 9x/2000/XP Using Cygwin

Tutorial & Documentation for NS2

• How to install Cygwin & NS-2 2.27 (Video Tutorial)
• Installation of NS-2 on Ubuntu Linux
• Introducing NS2 by Lloyd Wood
• Marc Greis' Tutorial
• Network Simulator Cross Reference
• NS-2 (in Japanese) by College of Engineering, Nihon University
• NS-2 Manual
• NS-2 Manual in Japanese
• NS-2 and Tcl
• NS by Example
• NS Simulator Course for Beginners
• Network Simulator (ns) Tutorial 2002
• Sandeep Gupta - A brief guide to NS-2 (pdf)
• The Network Simulator ns-2: Documentation
• NS-2 Blog (for tutorials, guides, and comments)

Forum & FAQ

• Bryan’s NS-2 DSR FAQ
• Dazhi's answers on simulating wireless networks via NS2 (updated every week)
• Jlsnet.co.uk - NS-2 Guide
• NS-2 FAQ for Dummies
• NS-2 User Mailing List
• Pedro Vale Estrela – FAQ / Assorted NS2 Tips
• To search the ns-users mailing list

TCL/TK

• MIT - OTcl
• OTcl Objects
• OTcl Tutorial
• Tcl/Tk Cookbook
• Tcl/Tk Tutorial

Technical Resources & Books

• MIT Opencourseware
• Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide
• UNIX/Linux Bourne/Bash Shell Scripting Tutorial

Trace

• Trace converter - Network Simulator NS-2 trace files converter
• Trace graph
• NS-2 Trace Formats

Awk

• How to get things done with awk ?
• The GAWK Manual
• The precise syntax of Awk

Topology Generator

• BRITE Topology Generator
• Georgia Tech Internetwork Topology Models
• Inet Topology Generator
• The Network Simulator ns-2: Topology Generation
• Tiers Topology Generator

Traffic Generator

• A modular framework for generating synthetic traffic for network simulations
• HTTP/1.0 traffic generator for ns-2
• Kostas - Poisson Traffic Generator for NS-2
• Poisson traffic generator

GNUPlot

• GnuPlot
• GnuPlot Central
• GnuPlot - Not so FAQ

Queue Simulation for NS-2

• M/M/1 Queue Simulation
• Weighted Fair Queueing (WFQ)
  

QoS for NS-2

• Diffserv additions to ns-2
• QoS Routing for ns-2
• QoS Simulation and Monitoring in a DiffServ network
• QoS of Voice over 802.11 using NS2
• RSVP/ns: An Implementation of RSVP for the Network Simulator ns-2
• Sergio Andreozzi - NS2 DiffServ Patched Module
• An Implementation of RSVP for the Network Simulator 2

Multimedia

• Stream Control Transmission Protocol

Multicasting

• PBM - Position-Based Multicast for Mobile Ad hoc Networks
• Source Specific Multicast Extension to NS-2

Wireless Simulation

• 802.11 and Bounded Slowdown (BSD) PSM Model for ns-2
• 802.11 MAC code in NS-2 (version 2.28)
• 802.11 module for NS-2
• 802.11b WLAN Channel Simulation in NS2
• Achieving Higher Throughput and QoS in 802.11 Wireless LANs
• Ad-Hoc TCP
• Ad hoc On-demand Multipath Distance Vector (AOMDV) Routing
• ASAP (Adaptive Reservation and Preallocation) QoS Framewok
• An evaluation framework to study the "Impact of Mobility Patterns On RouTing in Ad-hoc NeTworks"
• Basic 802.11 Statistics
• Coordinated Power Management under Sensing and Communication Constraints in Sensor Networks
• Cross-layer Interaction of TCP and Dynamic Routing in Multi-hop 802.11 Networks
• Enhanced Network Simulator modeling of IEEE 802.11 MAC layer protocol
• Extension of Rate-Adaptive MAC Protocol For NS2 Simulator
• How to Get Neighbors of a Mobile Node in Wireless Simulation
• Hyacinth: An IEEE 802.11-based Multi-channel Wireless Mesh Network
• IEEE 802.11e HCCA simulation using the Network Simulator 2
• Implementing a New Manet Unicast Routing Protocol in NS2 (Source Code)
• Low Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (LR-WPANs)
• Making NS-2 simulate an 802.11b link
• NO Ad-Hoc Routing Agent (NOAH)
• NS-2 Code for Random Trip Mobility Model
• QoS of Voice over 802.11 using NS2
• Transmit Power Control in Ad hoc Networks
• Wireless and Mobility Extensions to ns-2
• Zone Routing Protocol(ZRP) for Ad Hoc Networks

Mobiwan

• Installation steps of ns-allinone 2.1b6 and mobiwan
• Mobiwan for NS-2.26

Peer-to-Peer Simulation

• Packet-level Peer-to-Peer Simulation Framework and GnutellaSim
• Peer-to-Peer Simplified (P2PS) Protocol

TCP/UDP Enhancements for NS-2

• BIC TCP - a TCP Variant for High-Speed Long Distance Networks
• BI-TCP Implementation for NS 2
• Low-Rate TCP-Targeted Denial of Service Attacks
• NS2 Simulation for Reliable Blast UDP (RBUDP)
• Simulations for Stateful TCP Congestion Control
• Simulation Study of Proposed HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion Windows
• TCP-J - Enhanced TCP Westwood (Higher Throughput In Wireless Networks)
• TCP WESTWOOD - Modules for NS-2

Routing

• Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing

Ant Routing

• Ant-like Mobile Agents - NS2 Patch
• Cooperative Reinforcement Learning for Routing in Ad-hoc Networks

Video Traces

• Flower (cif)
• Football (cif)
• MPEG-4 and H.263 Video Traces for Network Performance Evalution
• Video Traces for Network Performance Evaluation

Add-ons & Extensions

• Extend NS's Capability with MFC
• Fast ns-2 simulator
• NANS - Network Analyzer for Network Simulator ns2
• Trace graph

Source Code

• Cooperative Reinforcement Learning for Routing in Ad-hoc Networks
• End Buffer Management and Congestion for Video
• How to evaluate MPEG video transmission using the NS2 simulator
• Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents in Wireless Internet
• The Network Simulator: Contributed Code
• The source codes for Implementing a New Manet Unicast Routing Protocol in NS2 (Protoname)

* If you have any soucecode to share, please send to me

Etc

• AutoPart - automatically partition a large network simulation into smaller simulation instances
• Cygwin User's Guide
• DCCP Module for NS-2
• Eifel for NS2
• How to Use Matlab in NS
• Implementing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) in ns-2
• NS-2 Emulation Extensions
• NS-2 for grid
• Pedro Vale Estrela - NS2 Debugging Page
• Tools for NS-2
• YUVviewer