Rajeev k.Shakya @Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

NS-2 Installation Guide

• Installing NS-2 in 2-minutes on Ubuntu Linux
• NS2-quick start - Basic Learning
• NS2-C++ Class Hierarchy- [Navigation of Classes]
• C++ Class Hierarchy of version -ns-snapshot-20040722
• C++ Class Hierarchy of - version 2.26
• C++ Class Hierarchy of - - version 2.29
• Installation of NS-2.28 on Ubuntu Linux
• Installation of NS-2.33 on Ubuntu 9.04

NS-2 Extensions

• Wireless Sensor Networks simulation in NS2
• Cognitive Radio Cognitive Network Simulator
• NS2-Extension for Multi-channel Support - Patches
• Rice Monarch extensions - Wireless & Mobility
• NS-2 Emulation Extensions - Real-time Applications
• Bonn Mobility & Networking Suite - Patch
• UMTS extensions - UTRAN protocols
• The Multi-Interface Cross-Layer Extension - Miracle
• TDMA scheduling for Satellite Networking - Uplink and Downlink TDMA over TCP

Network Simulator (NS-2) Resource

• Network Simulator 2 (NS-2)
• Network Simulator 2 (NS-2) -- Contributed Code By Researchers
• Running Ns and Nam Under Windows 9x/2000/XP Using Cygwin
• A good tutorial on NS (start here!!)
• Marc Greis' Tutorial : A good tutorial with new protocol design example(start here!!)
• Best resource of NS-2 learning with NS-2 codes. note-books on various topics, namely Wired, Wireless, Satellite, Optical, Security etc.
• Installation of NS-2.28 on Ubuntu Linux
• Installation of NS-2.33 on Ubuntu 9.04
• Introducing NS2 by Lloyd Wood
• Marc Greis' Tutorial
• Network Simulator Cross Reference
• NS-2 (in Japanese) by College of Engineering, Nihon University
• NS-2 Manual
• NS-2 Manual in Japanese
• NS-2 and Tcl
• NS by Example
• NS Simulator Course for Beginners
• Network Simulator (ns) Tutorial 2002
• Installation of tcl-debug onto Cygwin + ns2 release 2.28
• The Network Simulator ns-2: Documentation
• NS-2 Blog (for tutorials, guides, and comments)
• NS-2 and Otcl Debugging Tips & Guide with BugFix Tutorials

Trace

• Trace converter - Network Simulator NS-2 trace files converter
• Trace graph
• NS-2 Trace Formats

Topology Generator

• Extended Nam Editor
• BRITE Topology Generator
• Georgia Tech Internetwork Topology Models
• Inet Topology Generator
• The Network Simulator ns-2: Topology Generation
• Tiers Topology Generator

Traffic Generator

• A modular framework for generating synthetic traffic for network simulations
• HTTP/1.0 traffic generator for ns-2
• Kostas - Poisson Traffic Generator for NS-2
• Poisson traffic generator

GNUPlot

• GnuPlot
• GnuPlot Central
• GnuPlot - Not so FAQ

Awk

• How to get things done with awk ?
• The GAWK Manual
• The precise syntax of Awk

Queue Simulation for NS-2

• M/M/1 Queue Simulation
• Weighted Fair Queueing (WFQ)
  

Wireless Simulation

• 802.11 and Bounded Slowdown (BSD) PSM Model for ns-2
• 802.11 MAC code in NS-2 (version 2.28)
• 802.11 module for NS-2
• 802.11b WLAN Channel Simulation in NS2
• Achieving Higher Throughput and QoS in 802.11 Wireless LANs
• Ad-Hoc TCP
• Ad hoc On-demand Multipath Distance Vector (AOMDV) Routing
• ASAP (Adaptive Reservation and Preallocation) QoS Framewok
• An evaluation framework to study the "Impact of Mobility Patterns On RouTing in Ad-hoc NeTworks"
• Basic 802.11 Statistics
• Coordinated Power Management under Sensing and Communication Constraints in Sensor Networks
• Cross-layer Interaction of TCP and Dynamic Routing in Multi-hop 802.11 Networks
• Enhanced Network Simulator modeling of IEEE 802.11 MAC layer protocol
• Extension of Rate-Adaptive MAC Protocol For NS2 Simulator
• How to Get Neighbors of a Mobile Node in Wireless Simulation
• Hyacinth: An IEEE 802.11-based Multi-channel Wireless Mesh Network
• IEEE 802.11e HCCA simulation using the Network Simulator 2
• Implementing a New Manet Unicast Routing Protocol in NS2 (Source Code)
• Low Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (LR-WPANs)
• Making NS-2 simulate an 802.11b link
• NO Ad-Hoc Routing Agent (NOAH)
• NS-2 Code for Random Trip Mobility Model
• QoS of Voice over 802.11 using NS2
• Transmit Power Control in Ad hoc Networks
• Wireless and Mobility Extensions to ns-2
• Zone Routing Protocol(ZRP) for Ad Hoc Networks

QoS for NS-2

• Diffserv additions to ns-2
• QoS Routing for ns-2
• QoS Simulation and Monitoring in a DiffServ network
• QoS of Voice over 802.11 using NS2
• RSVP/ns: An Implementation of RSVP for the Network Simulator ns-2
• Sergio Andreozzi - NS2 DiffServ Patched Module
• An Implementation of RSVP for the Network Simulator 2

Etc

• AutoPart - automatically partition a large network simulation into smaller simulation instances
• Cygwin User's Guide
• DCCP Module for NS-2
• Eifel for NS2
• How to Use Matlab in NS
• Implementing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) in ns-2
• NS-2 Emulation Extensions
• NS-2 for grid
• Pedro Vale Estrela - NS2 Debugging Page
• Tools for NS-2
• YUVviewer