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    Network simulation involves using software to model network behavior by calculating interactions between entities like routers, switches, and nodes. It allows observing a network's performance in a controlled test environment by modifying attributes. A network simulator predicts behavior by modeling devices, links, and applications. Most use discrete event simulation to process events like packet arrivals in order. Network emulation introduces real devices and applications into a simulated test network, altering packet flow to mimic a live network. This validates network designs before deployment. Common uses of simulation include network research, design validation, and education.

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    Network simulation involves using software to model network behavior by calculating interactions between entities like routers, switches, and nodes. It allows observing a network's performance in a controlled test environment by modifying attributes. A network simulator predicts behavior by modeling devices, links, and applications. Most use discrete event simulation to process events like packet arrivals in order. Network emulation introduces real devices and applications into a simulated test network, altering packet flow to mimic a live network. This validates network designs before deployment. Common uses of simulation include network research, design validation, and education.

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    Network simulation involves using software to model network behavior by calculating interactions between entities like routers, switches, and nodes. It allows observing a network's performance in a controlled test environment by modifying attributes. A network simulator predicts behavior by modeling devices, links, and applications. Most use discrete event simulation to process events like packet arrivals in order. Network emulation introduces real devices and applications into a simulated test network, altering packet flow to mimic a live network. This validates network designs before deployment. Common uses of simulation include network research, design validation, and education.

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    Network simulation

    In computer network research, network simulation is a technique whereby a software


    program models the behavior of a network by calculating the interaction between the
    different network entities (routers, switches, nodes, access points, links etc.). Most
    simulators use discrete event simulation - the modeling of systems in which state
    variables change at discrete points in time. The behavior of the network and the various
    applications and services it supports can then be observed in a test lab; various
    attributes of the environment can also be modified in a controlled manner to assess
    how the network / protocols would behave under different conditions.
    Network simulator[edit]

    A network simulator is software that predicts the behavior of a computer network. Since
    communication networks have become too complex for traditional analytical methods
    to provide an accurate understanding of system behavior, network simulators are used.
    In simulators, the computer network is modeled with devices,links, applications etc. and
    the network performance is reported. Simulators come with support for the most
    popular technologies and networks in use today such as 5G, Internet of Things (IoT),
    Wireless LANs, mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, vehicular ad hoc
    networks, cognitive radio networks, LTE etc.
    Simulations[edit]

    Most of the commercial simulators are GUI driven, while some network simulators are
    CLI driven. The network model / configuration describes the network (nodes, routers,
    switches, links) and the events (data transmissions, packet error etc.). Output results
    would include network level metrics, link metrics, device metrics etc. Further, drill down
    in terms of simulations trace files would also be available. Trace files log every packet,
    every event that occurred in the simulation and are used for analysis. Most network
    simulators use discrete event simulation, in which a list of pending "events" is stored,
    and those events are processed in order, with some events triggering future events—
    such as the event of the arrival of a packet at one node triggering the event of the
    arrival of that packet at a downstream node.
    Network emulation[edit]
    Network emulation allows users to introduce real devices and applications into a test
    network (simulated) that alters packet flow in such a way as to mimic the behavior of a
    live network. Live traffic can pass through the simulator and be affected by objects
    within the simulation.

    The typical methodology is that real packets from a live application are sent to the
    emulation server (where the virtual network is simulated). The real packet gets
    'modulated' into a simulation packet. The simulation packet gets demodulated into a
    real packet after experiencing effects of loss, errors, delay, jitter etc., thereby transferring
    these network effects into the real packet. Thus it is as-if the real packet flowed through
    a real network but in reality it flowed through the simulated network.

    Emulation is widely used in the design stage for validating communication networks
    prior to deployment.

    List of network simulators[edit]

    There are both free/open-source and proprietary network simulators available. Examples
    of notable network simulators / emulators include:

    OPNET

    NS2 / NS3

    Uses of network simulators[edit]

    Network simulators provide a cost-effective method for

    Network design validation for enterprises / data centers / sensor networks etc.
    5G datarate, delay, handover studies for service providers and regulators

    Network R & D (More than 70% of all Network Research paper reference a network
    simulator)[citation needed]
    Defense applications such as HF / UHF / VHF Radio based MANET Radios, Tactical
    data links etc.

    IOT, VANET simulations


    Satellite communication

    Education - Online courses, Lab experimentation and R & D. Most universities use a
    network simulator for teaching / R & D since its too expensive to buy hardware
    equipment

    There are a wide variety of network simulators, ranging from the very simple to the very
    complex. Minimally, a network simulator must enable a user to

    Model the network topology specifying the nodes on the network and the links
    between those nodes
    Model the application flow (traffic) between the nodes

    Providing network performance metrics as output


    Visualization of the packet flow

    Technology / protocol evaluation and device designs


    Logging of packet/events for drill down analyses / debugging

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