Paper Info
Title
TimSim: A Timestep-Based Wireless Ad-Hoc Network Simulator
Abstract
Wireless hosts can communicate with each other without a fixed infrastructure in wireless ad-hoc networks. Deploying and monitoring a large number of hosts in such networks involves high cost and intensive labor. As a result, most experiments are achievable through simulation. However, most simulators currently used are intended to evaluate individual routing protocols or algorithms. Direct simulation of an application's source code is not supported. To simulate an application, we have to extract the protocols or algorithms from the source code and rewrite them in accordance with the simulator's requirements. In this paper, we introduce a new wireless ad-hoc network simulator called TimSim. TimSim focuses on simulating the source code of wireless ad-hoc network application directly. As a unique feature, TimSim provides some similar APIs with real device driver so that users can simulate their source code on TimSim with only a few modifications. Driven by a timestep-based simulation engine, TimSim can simulate the data transmitted over wireless ad-hoc networks in bit-level. Additionally, we import database to store the simulation data that TimSim generates. Performance evaluation by means of a series of benchmark experiments demonstrates the efficiency of TimSim. Also a case study is presented to illustrate the practicability of TimSim.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TrustCom.2013.216
TrustCom/ISPA/IUCC
Keywords
Field
DocType
database,new wireless,benchmark experiment,timestep-based wireless ad-hoc network simulator,application program interfaces,timestep-based wireless ad-hoc network,timestep-based,ad-hoc network simulator,ad-hoc networks,wireless host,telecommunication computing,wireless ad-hoc network application,direct simulation,simulator,simulation data,device driver,api,wireless ad-hoc network,ad hoc networks,source code,timsim,timestep-based simulation engine,source code simulation,databases,wireless communication,data models,engines
Mobile ad hoc network,Source code,Computer security,Computer science,Computer network,Network simulation,Real-time computing,Wireless ad hoc network,Vehicular ad hoc network,Distributed computing,Simulation,Ad hoc wireless distribution service,Optimized Link State Routing Protocol,Routing protocol
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2324-898X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chong Yan100.34
zhiping jia246360.64
Lei Ju326529.03
Hui Xia414911.03
Huaqiang Xu592.19