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Expanding the Ns-2 Emulation Environment with the Use of Flexible Mapping

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Computer Networks (CN 2016)

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The Berkeley’s ns-2 simulator was, for a long time, one of the most popular open-source simulation tools. Although the new tool in the ns family, the ns-3, replaced it in the above ranking, the simplicity of the ns-2, with its flexibility and ability to operate at higher levels of abstraction caused the simulator to remain in use. This paper presents our enhancements to the mapping of incoming and outgoing traffic in the ns-2 simulator when it works in emulation mode. Our enhancements expand the build-in 1-to-1 MAC address mapping to 1-to-many address/port mapping, which allows the emulator to connect to more end-systems or subnetworks than the number of interfaces of the emulation server.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    LBNL stands for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the ns-1 place of development.

  2. 2.

    TCL-based user interface in the ns-2 and the Python-based interface in the ns-3.

  3. 3.

    Input and output modules, respectively, captures traffic and (after processing) inject it into a real-world network.

  4. 4.

    The identifier of the module (newIP) denotes, that the newIP is a newly written module for cooperation with the IP protocol. This name was given, because Network/IP class already exists in the ns-2.

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The work was supported by the contract 11.11.230.018.

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  1. Department of Telecommunications, The AGH University of Science and Technology, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Krakow, Poland

    Robert R. Chodorek

  2. Department of Information Technology, Kielce University of Technology, Al. Tysiaclecia Panstwa Polskiego 7, 25-314, Kielce, Poland

    Agnieszka Chodorek

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  2. Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

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  3. Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

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Chodorek, R.R., Chodorek, A. (2016). Expanding the Ns-2 Emulation Environment with the Use of Flexible Mapping. In: Gaj, P., Kwiecień, A., Stera, P. (eds) Computer Networks. CN 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 608. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39207-3_2

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