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Title:
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A WORKLOAD TO TEST DENSE AD HOC NETWORK SIMULATORS |
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Author(s):
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Pablo Boronat-pérez , Ernesto Rodréguez-fernández , Miguel Pérez-francisco , Pietro Manzoni |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-62-1 |
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Editors:
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Jörg Roth and Jairo Gutiérrez |
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Year:
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2008 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Simulation, synthetic workload, ad hoc networks |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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91 |
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Last Page:
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94 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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Simulation is the most common technique used in communications research. It is widely used to test new general and
application-dependent protocols. Sometimes it is desirable to test complex scenarios with a great number of nodes. In
these cases, the performance of the simulator is a challenge, however few quantitative studies have been made to
compare network simulators. In these work we present a synthetic workload to test ad hoc wireless network simulators.
The workload have to be implemented in the simulation library to be measured. The workload is flexible, allowing to
modify different aspects, such as the number of nodes or the intensity of communications. Also, in this work we have
made an analysis to detect the most important factors (or their combinations) when comparing simulators with our
scenario. These preliminary tests have been done with NS2, which is the most popular network simulator. Finally to
illustrate the utility of the workload, we have used it to compare NS2 and SNS (a modified NS2 with performance
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