A survey on MANET simulation tools

Simulation play important role in the testing and development of any network. It is very expensive to test every network protocol or any network algorithm in real network by connecting a number of routers, computers and data links. Simulation tool (Simulator) is a piece of software or hardware provides a virtual environment to network though the network is not actually present. There are many simulators present for mobile ad-hoc network. These simulators cover various aspects of this network. This paper describes the network simulators for mobile ad-hoc network to help the researchers for choosing the simulator, which will be efficient, reliable as per their requirements.