A performance comparison of recent network simulators. Weingartner, E., vom Lehn, H., & Wehrle, K. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dresden, Germany, 2009.
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A widespread methodology for performance analysis in the field of communication systems engineering is network simulation. While ns-2 has established itself as virtually the standard network simulation tool, other network simulators have gained more and more attention during the last years. In this paper, we briefly survey new developments in the field of network simulation and conduct a performance comparison study by implementing an identical simulation set-up in five simulators, namely ns-2, OMNet++, ns-3, SimPy and JiST/SWANS. Our results reveal large differences according to both run-time performance and memory usage.
@inproceedings{ Weingartner09,
  author = {Weingartner, Elias and vom Lehn, Hendrik and Wehrle, Klaus},
  title = {A performance comparison of recent network simulators},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
  address = {Dresden, Germany},
  year = {2009},
  abstract = {A widespread methodology for performance analysis
in the field of communication systems engineering is network
simulation. While ns-2 has established itself as virtually the
standard network simulation tool, other network simulators have
gained more and more attention during the last years. In this
paper, we briefly survey new developments in the field of network
simulation and conduct a performance comparison study by
implementing an identical simulation set-up in five simulators,
namely ns-2, OMNet++, ns-3, SimPy and JiST/SWANS. Our results
reveal large differences according to both run-time performance
and memory usage.},
  url = {http://ds.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/members/weingaertner/publications/2008-06-Weingaertner-ICC-NetworkSimulatorComparison}
}

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