OpenWNS - open Wireless Network Simulator

Author

Bültmann, Daniel ; Mühleisen, Maciej ; Klagg, Karsten ; Schinnenburg, Marc

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Networks, RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

17-20 May 2009

Firstpage

205

Lastpage

210

Abstract

This paper presents the open Wireless Network Simulator (openWNS). This simulation tool was developed in the last 5 years at the department of Communication Networks (ComNets) at RWTH Aachen University and has been released as open source software recently. openWNS is a dynamic event driven system level simulation platform that allows for investigation of dynamic protocol behaviour in multi-cellular scenarios with detailed interference modeling. The simulation platform follows a modular design down to protocol building blocks, which makes it possible to rapidly modify the implemented protocol stacks. openWNS currently includes models from physical to application layer. The protocol modules for IEEE 802.16m and IEEE 802.11n-draft are probably the most interesting for the wireless research community.

Keywords

WiMax; cellular radio; protocols; public domain software; radiofrequency interference; telecommunication computing; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11n; IEEE 802.16m; dynamic event driven system level simulation platform; interference modeling; multi-cellular scenarios; open Wireless Network Simulator; open source software; openWNS; Automatic repeat request; Communication networks; Discrete event simulation; Interference; Licenses; Open source software; Research and development; Scalability; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Conference, 2009. EW 2009. European

Conference_Location

Aalborg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5935-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EW.2009.5357966

Filename

5357966