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ISSNSM — International Summer School on Network and Service Management 2nd ISSNSM’s Tutorial onSimulating Networks with Network Simulator 2 (ns-2)(Tutorial T2)Speaker:Frank EyermannJune 3, 2008ISSNM program chaired by Burkhard Stiller, David Hausheer, University of ZürichISSNM laboratory organization chaired by Cristian Morariu, Peter Racz, University of Zürich‰‰‰‰‰NS-2 Network Simulator 2Tutorial – Emanics Summer School, Zurich3rd June, 2008This tutorial/training course was supported in part by theEC IST-EMANICS Network of Excellence (#26854).2008 Frank Eyermann 1ToCStructureMain parts of a simulationCreating a simulation script– Exercises 1Tracing and Monitoring– Exercises 2Analyzing traces– Exercises 32008 Frank Eyermann 21‰‰‰‰ToCLANs– Exercises 4Unicast Routing and Network Dynamics– Exercises 5Outlook– What had to be skipped in this tutorial2008 Frank Eyermann 3IntroductionFrank Eyermann– Frank.Eyermann@unibw.de– Information Systems Laboratory– Faculty for Computer Science– Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich2008 Frank Eyermann 42‰‰‰Basics (1/3)ns-2– Discrete event driven simulator– (O)Tcl-script describes simulation flow– For all kinds of packet-based networks– Most Unix-like systems / cygwin– Packets are only events• No real data (payload) is transferred!– Each packet is simulated• Scalability issue!• “Careful” logging2008 Frank Eyermann 5Basics (2/3)Support for–TCP– Routing– ...