Paper Info
Title
ns+SDL: the network simulator for SDL systems
Abstract
Today, simulators for the performance evaluation of networked systems are seldom integrated with tool environments used for system development and maintenance. This requires the system developer to establish and maintain separate code bases for simulation and production purposes, a tedious and error-prone task. In this paper, we present ns+SDL, an extension of the network simulator ns-2 to combine SDL design specifications with ns-2 network models. ns+SDL enables the developer to use SDL design specifications as a common base for the generation of simulation and production code. Furthermore, the same SDL-to-C code generator is used to generate this code. Both measures increase confidence that the results of the performance evaluation hold for the networked system in operation. Another important aspect is the composition of SDL systems and existing ns-2 simulation components, in particular, components implementing detailed timed models of existing communication technologies. We illustrate the application of ns+SDL by a simulation of DSDV, the Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector routing protocol, over WLAN.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/11506843_7
SDL Forum
Keywords
Field
DocType
present ns,ns-2 simulation component,separate code base,ns-2 network model,production code,network simulator ns-2,networked system,sdl design specification,sdl-to-c code generator,sdl system,network model,code generation,communication technology,routing protocol,network simulator,product code
Specification language,Computer science,Network simulation,Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routing,Link layer,Code generation,System development,Network model,Routing protocol,Embedded system
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3530
0302-9743
3-540-26612-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
1.64
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Kuhn19016.33
Alexander Geraldy2354.72
Reinhard Gotzhein346571.44
Florian Rothländer4151.64