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Simulating Opportunistic Networks with OMNeT++

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In this chapter, we focus on how to simulate Opportunistic Networks (OppNets) in OMNeT++. After defining what OppNets are and how they are different from other networking concepts, we detail, one by one, the necessary models for simulating them, such as mobility, network traffic, user behavior, and communication models focusing on the framework that we have built to simulate OppNets called Opportunistic Protocol Simulator (OPS). Furthermore, we pay special attention to various data dissemination models and the metrics required to evaluate OppNets. Towards the end, we provide a tutorial on setting up and using OPS with two use cases that include the different parameters configured to simulate these use cases and an analysis of the results.

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Notes

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    The MiXiM project has been discontinued, and its contents have been merged into the INET Framework. New projects should be based on a recent version of INET instead of MiXiM.

  2. 2.

    https://www.nsnam.org.

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    https://akeranen.github.io/the-one.

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    https://npapanik.github.io/Adyton.

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    OPS Github repository: https://github.com/ComNets-Bremen/OPS/.

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    OPS Github repository: https://github.com/ComNets-Bremen/OPS/.

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    https://www.opengarden.com/.

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    https://crawdad.org.

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    BonnMotion website: http://sys.cs.uos.de/bonnmotion/.

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    http://www.ansim.info.

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    https://ns2simulator.com.

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    OPS Github repository: https://github.com/ComNets-Bremen/OPS/.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the students at the University of Bremen, who contributed over the years to create the OPS framework: Anas bin Muslim, Karima Khandaker, Mine Centinkaya, Kirishanth Chethuraja, and Jibin Pathapparambil John.

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    Asanga Udugama, Anna Förster, Jens Dede & Vishnupriya Kuppusamy

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Udugama, A., Förster, A., Dede, J., Kuppusamy, V. (2019). Simulating Opportunistic Networks with OMNeT++ . In: Virdis, A., Kirsche, M. (eds) Recent Advances in Network Simulation. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12842-5_14

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