Paper Info
Title
A Visualization and Analysis Tool for NS-2 Wireless Simulations: iNSpect
Abstract
The Network Simulator 2 (NS-2) is a popular and powerful simulation environment, and the number of NS-2 users has increased greatly in recent years. Although it was originally designed for wired networks, NS-2 has been extended to work with wireless networks, including wireless LANs, mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), and sensor networks; however, the Network Animator (NAM) for NS-2 has not been extended for wireless visualization. In this paper, we discuss a new visualization and analysis tool for use with NS-2 wireless simulations. Visual analysis of a wireless environment is important for three areas of NS-2 based simulation research: (1) validating the accuracy of a mobility model驴s output and/or the node topology ?les used to drive the simulation; (2) validation of new versions of the NS-2 simulator itself; and (3) analysis of the results of NS-2 simulations. Our iNSpect program handles all three of these areas quickly and accurately. We驴ve made our iNSpect program available for other researchers in order to improve the accuracy of their simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/MASCOT.2005.11
MASCOTS
Keywords
Field
DocType
analysis tool,ns-2 user,ns-2 simulation,wireless network,wireless lans,ns-2 wireless simulations,ns-2 simulator,wireless environment,ns-2 wireless simulation,wireless visualization,inspect program,visual analysis,mobile ad hoc network,wireless sensor networks,ad hoc networks,sensor network,computer animation
Wireless network,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Computer science,Real-time computing,Wireless WAN,Wi-Fi array,Wireless ad hoc network,Heterogeneous network,Mobile wireless sensor network,Wireless sensor network,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2458-3
29
3.20
References 
Authors
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stuart Kurkowski130821.27
Tracy Camp2109475.91
Neil Mushell3293.20
Michael Colagrosso435429.73