Scribd
Upload
113 views3 pages

Experiment - 1: Aim: A Brief Introduction To Network Simulation Through The Netsim Simulation Package

NetSim is a network simulation tool that allows users to create network scenarios, model traffic flow, and analyze performance metrics. It provides simulations of various network protocols and types as well as programming exercises. The document outlines experimenting with NetSim by designing a simple network model, collecting network statistics through simulation, and analyzing the performance of the network.

Uploaded by

Yash Gupta
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
113 views3 pages

Experiment - 1: Aim: A Brief Introduction To Network Simulation Through The Netsim Simulation Package

NetSim is a network simulation tool that allows users to create network scenarios, model traffic flow, and analyze performance metrics. It provides simulations of various network protocols and types as well as programming exercises. The document outlines experimenting with NetSim by designing a simple network model, collecting network statistics through simulation, and analyzing the performance of the network.

Uploaded by

Yash Gupta
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

EXPERIMENT – 1

Aim : A brief introduction to network simulation through the NetSim simulation


package

Theory:
What is NetSim?
NetSim is a network simulation tool that allows you to create network scenarios, model
traffic, and study performance metrics.
What is a network?
A network is a set of hardware devices connected together, either physically or logically. This
allows them to exchange information.
A network is a system that provides its users with unique capabilities, above and beyond what
the individual machines and their software applications can provide.
What is simulation?
A simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time.
Network simulation is a technique where a program models the behavior of a network either
by calculating the interaction between the different network entities (hosts/routers, data links,
packets, etc) using mathematical formulae, or actually capturing and playing back
observations from a production network. 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
would behave under different conditions.
What does NetSim provide?
Simulation: NetSim provides simulation of various protocols working in various networks as
follows: Internetworks, Legacy Networks, BGP Networks, Advanced Wireless Networks,
Cellular Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Personal Area Networks, LTE/LTE-A
Networks, Cognitive Radio Networks, and Internet of Things. Users can open the
experiments and save the experiments as desired. The different experiments can also be
analyzed using the analytics option in the simulation menu.
Programming: NetSim covers various programming exercises along with concepts,
algorithms, pseudo code and flowcharts. Users can also write their own source codes in
C/C++ and can link them to NetSim.
Some of the programming concepts are Address resolution protocol (ARP), Classless inter
domain routing (CIDR), Cryptography, Distance vector routing, shortest path, Subnetting etc.
Task :
Design and configure a simple network model, collect statistics and
analyze network performance.
Network model: A Network model is a flexible way of representing devices and their
relationships. Networking devices like hubs, switches, routers, nodes, connecting wires
etc. are used to create a network model.

Scenario: A Scenario is a narrative describing foreseeable interactions of types of input


data and its respective output data in the system.
Network performance: To measure the performance of a network, performance
metrics constitutes of Network Statistics.
What are network statistics?
Network statistics are network performance related metrics displayed after simulating
a network. The report at the end of the completion of a simulation experiment include
metrics like throughput, simulation time, frames generated, frames dropped, frames
errored, collision counts etc, and their respective values.
What is Packet Animation?
When running simulation, options are available to play and record animations which
allow users to watch traffic flow through the network for in-depth visualization and
analysis.
What is NetSim analytics used for?
It is used to compare and analyze various protocols scenarios under Internetworks,
Legacy Networks, BGP Networks, Advanced Wireless Networks – MANET and Wi-Max,
Cellular Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Zigbee Networks, Internet of Things,
LTE/LTE-A Networks and Cognitive Radio Networks. Parameters like utilization, loss,
queuing delay, transmission time etc of different sample experiments are compared
with help of graphs.

You might also like