Wireless Network Simulation: A Guide Using Ad Hoc Networks and the Ns-3 Simulator

ISBN-13: 9781484268483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

Henry Zárate Ceballos; Jorge Parra Amaris; Hernan Jiménez Jiménez

Spis treści

Part I: Simulation Basics

Chapter 1: Network Simulation 3

Synopsis: The first chapter shows a detailed explanation on simulation, kinds of simulation and the first look at the ns-3 simulator and its formal specification.

1.1 Framework

1.2 Simulation, models and their importance in research

1.2.1 Types of Simulation Techniques

1.3 Formal Systems Concepts

1.4 Simulation and Emulation

1.5 Network Simulators

1.6 NS3 Simulator general features

1.7 Formal Concepts and NS3

Formal Specification

1.8 Complementary Readings

Chapter 2: Wireless Networks and Ad hoc Networks

Synopsis: The second chapter shows the evolution on wireless networks and its capabilities on the computing and social systems, explain the new architectures and environments for distributed systems and a particularly case of the ad hoc networks. This chapter introduce theoretical and conceptual the wireless networks.

2.1 Connectivity and Mobility Evolution

2.2 History of Wireless Communication Technologies

2.2.1 Computing Architecture with Wireless Networks

2.2.2 Internet of Things (IoT)

2.2.3 Fog Computing

2.2.4 Edge Computing

2.3 Mobile Clouds and Ad hoc Network

2.4 Features and challenges of MANETs

2.5 Wireless mesh networks and wireless sensor networks

2.6 Cooperation in MANETs

2.7 Routing Protocols

2.7.1 Distance Vector and Link State Routing

2.8 Social Clouds

2.9 Manet Clusters

2.10 Complementary Readings

Chapter 3: Experiment Design

Synopsis: the third chapter shows the steps and the best practices to design a simulation experiment, the assumptions, models and techniques for determine the factors, the experiments and the core of an simulation experiment. Is a theoretical chapter

3.1 Design of Simulations Experiments

3.2 Factorial designs

3.3 Complementary Readings

Part II: Network Simulator

Chapter 4: Network Simulation using NS3

Synopsis: The fourth chapter introduces the network simulator 3, his features, computational models, composition and computational structure with examples and detailed explanation of this module, code style and other toolkits useful on ns3 to deploy and run a simulation experiment.

4.1 What is NS3?

4.2 Relations between Abstractions on NS3

4.3 Code Style

4.4 My First Network

4.4.1 Running and Build other scripts

4.5 Emulation on NS3

4.6 Animating the Simulation

4.7 Scheduler

4.8 Logging and tracing

4.8.1 Trace helpers

4.8.2 Using Command line Arguments

4.9 Exercises

Chapter 5: Analyses of Results

Synopsis: The fifth chapter shows the importance of make a well analysis of results and the experiment outputs ,show the statistical techniques for evaluate the quality of data and how validate and verify if an experiment is successful or not

5.1 Output data analysis for a single system

5.1.1 Transient and steady state behavior of a stochastic process

5.2 The random nature of the simulation output

5.3 Types of simulation according to the output analysis

5.3.1 Statistical analysis for terminating (or transient) simulations

5.3.2 Statistical analysis for steady state parameters

5.3.3 The replication deletion approach

5.4 Complementary Readings

Part III: Wireless Network Simulation on NS3

Chapter 6: Manet Simulation on NS3

Synopsis: The sixth chapter shows a detailed explanation with examples, abstractions descriptions, methods and computation models used to create an ad hoc network on ns-3, the second part of this chapter introduce the Agent based simulation (ABS) for ns-3 on a wireless ad hoc network and the analysis of results with this kind of techniques. The tool used is an application build on ns-3 that allows the use of agents with the simulator

6.1 A simple Ad hoc network

6.1.1 Wifi Model

6.1.2 Node Abstractions

6.1.3 Socket abstraction

6.1.4 Plot

6.1.5 Output

6.2 Agent Based Simulation

6.2.1 Description of the experiment

6.2.2 Abstractions

6.2.3 Tracing

6.2.4 Run Simulation

6.2.5 Analysis of Results

6.2.6 Run and Analyze

6.2.7 Results

6.3 Complementary Readings

Chapter 7: Manets and PLC on NS3

Synopsis: The Seventh chapter introduce the integration of wireless networks with other kind of technologies, in this case with the Power line communications PLC and how is possible create new node abstractions on the ns-3 simulator a combine different physical mediums to create a network and share services.

7.1 Power Line Communication

7.1.1 Fundamental Characteristics of the PLC Channel

7.1.2 Deterministic Models of PLC Channel

7.2 PLC Software for NS3 Simulation

7.3 MANET and PLC Simulation

7.4 Complementary Readings

Part IV: AppendicesX

Synopsis: The book includes three appendix: basic statistics, ns-3 installation, and OpenAi Gym framework instalation on ns-3 to allow the Agent Based Simulation (ABS)

Appendix A: Basic Statistics

A.1 Random Variables and Random Vectors

A.1.1 Random Variables

A.1.2 Probability Density Functions

A.1.3 Random Vector

A.1.4 Independence

A.1.5 Expected Value

A.1.6 Variance

A.1.7 Covariance

A.1.8 Correlation Coefficient

A.1.9 Binomial Random Variable

A.1.10 Normal Random Variable

A.1.11 Geometric Random Variable

A.1.12 Uniform Random Variable

Appendix B: NS3 Installation

Appendix C: ns3gym: OpenAI Gym integration

C.1 Installation

Index

O autorze

Henry Zárate Ceballos received his PhD in Engineering Computing and Systems and Masters Degree in Telecommunications from the National University of Colombia. Henry is currently a researcher with the TLÖN Group. Henry has worked extesensively with the Ns-2 and Ns-3 simulators and wireless distributed operative systems.

Jorge Ernesto Parra Amaris received his Masters Degree in Telecommunication from the National University of Colombia, and is an Electronics Engineer from the Colombian School of Engineering Julio Garavito. Jorge's Masters thesis proposed a unique algorithm which was validated through simulation using NS-3.

 

Hernán Jiménez Jiménez received his postgraduate Masters in Telecommunications from the National University of Colombia. Hernán is currently a researcher at TLÖN Group.

Diego Alexis Romero Rincón received his Masters in Electronics from the National University of Colombia and is currently a researcher with the TLÖN Group. Diego focused his Masters thesis on on the NS-3 simulator. Deigo is currently a lecturer at the National University of Colombia.

Oscar Agudelo Rojas is a systems engineer and lecturer at the National University of Colombia, where he also received his Masters degree in Telecommunications. His research work includes networks (wired and wireless), network coding, simulation (ns2-ns3) and parallel and distributed systems.

​Jorge Eduardo Ortiz Triviño received his PhD in Engineering Computing Systems and Masters Degrees in Telecommunications, Statistics, and Philosophy from the National University of Colombia. Jorge is currently a professor at the National University of Colombia, while also working as a network specialist.

Blurb

earn to run your own simulation by working with model analysis, mathematical background, simulation output data, and most importantly, a network simulator for wireless technology. This book introduces the best practices of simulator use, the techniques for analyzing simulations with artificial agents and the integration with other technologies such as Power Line Communications (PLC).

Network simulation is a key technique used to test the future behavior of a network. It’s a vital development component for the development of 5G, IoT, wireless sensor networks, and many more. This book explains the scope and evolution of the technology that has led to the development of dynamic systems such as Internet of Things and fog computing. 

You'll focus on the ad hoc networks with stochastic behavior and dynamic nature, and the ns-3 simulator. These are useful open tools for academics, researchers, students and engineers to deploy telecommunications experiments, proofs and new scenarios with a high degree of similarity with reality.  You'll also benefit from a detailed explanation of the examples and the theoretical components needed to deploy wireless simulations or wired, if necessary.

You will:

• Review best practices of simulator uses
• Understand techniques for analyzing simulations with artificial agents
• Apply simulation techniques and experiment design
  
• Program on ns-3 simulator
• Analyze simulation results
• Create new modules or protocols for wired and wireless networks