A Performance Comparison of Recent Network Simulators

Author

Weingärtner, Elias ; Vom Lehn, Hendrik ; Wehrle, Klaus

Author_Institution

Distrib. Syst. Group, RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

14-18 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

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.

Keywords

telecommunication computing; telecommunication network planning; JiST/SWANS; OMNet++; SimPy; communication systems engineering; network simulators; ns-2; ns-3; performance analysis; standard network simulation tool; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Computer simulation; Discrete event simulation; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Runtime; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2009. ICC '09. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dresden

ISSN

1938-1883

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3435-0

Electronic_ISBN

1938-1883

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2009.5198657

Filename

5198657