Some Important ns-2 Resource Links

Network Simulator (ns-2) Resource Page

• Network Simulator 2 (NS-2)
• Running Ns and Nam Under Windows 9x/2000/XP Using Cygwin
• Installing ns-2 in Ubuntu

Tutorial & Documentation for ns-2

• Introduction to Network Simulator NS2 [Amazon]
• How to install Cygwin & NS-2 2.27 (Video Tutorial)
• Introducing NS2 by Lloyd Wood
• Marc Greis' Tutorial
• NS-2 (in Japanese) by College of Engineering, Nihon University
• NS-2 Manual
• NS-2 Manual in Japanese
• NS by Example
• NS Simulator Course for Beginners
• Network Simulator (ns) Tutorial 2002
• The Network Simulator ns-2: Documentation
• NS-2 Blog (for tutorials, guides, and comments)

Forum & FAQ

• Network Simulator NS-2 Wikipage
• Jlsnet.co.uk - NS-2 Guide
• NS-2 User Mailing List
• Pedro Vale Estrela – FAQ / Assorted NS2 Tips
• To search the ns-users mailing list

TCL/TK

• Tcl/Tk Quick Reference Guide
• MIT - OTcl
• Tcl Tutorial
• Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk (4th Edition) [Amazon]
• Tcl and the Tk Toolkit (2nd Edition) [Amazon]
• Tcl/Tk, Second Edition: A Developer's Guide [Amazon]

Technical Resources & Books

• MIT Opencourseware
• Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide
• UNIX/Linux Bourne/Bash Shell Scripting Tutorial

Trace

• NS2 Visual Trace Analyzer: program
• JTrana: A Java-based NS2 Wireless Trace Analyzer
• ns2measure : an integrated framework for enabling effective data collection and statistical analysis with ns2

Awk

• How to get things done with awk ?
• The AWK Programming Language [Amazon]
• Effective awk Programming (3rd Edition) [Amazon]

Topology Generator

• 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

GNUPlot

• GnuPlot
• GnuPlot Central
• GnuPlot - Not so FAQ
• Gnuplot in Action: Understanding Data with Graphs [Amazon]

Queue Simulation for ns-2

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

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

Multimedia

• Stream Control Transmission Protocol

Wimax

• WiMAX Module for ns-2 Simulator
• LRC's WiMAX module for the ns-2 simulator

Multicasting

• PBM - Position-Based Multicast for Mobile Ad hoc Networks
• Source Specific Multicast Extension to NS-2

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
• Adapting BitTorrent to wireless ad hoc networks [sourcecode]
• Mannasim : Wireless Sensor Networks Simulation Framework

Mobiwan

• Installation steps of ns-allinone 2.1b6 and mobiwan
• Mobiwan for NS-2.26

Peer-to-Peer Simulation

• Packet-level Peer-to-Peer Simulation Framework and GnutellaSim
• Peer-to-Peer Simplified (P2PS) Protocol

TCP/UDP Enhancements for ns-2

• BIC TCP - a TCP Variant for High-Speed Long Distance Networks
• BI-TCP Implementation for NS 2
• Low-Rate TCP-Targeted Denial of Service Attacks
• NS2 Simulation for Reliable Blast UDP (RBUDP)
• Simulations for Stateful TCP Congestion Control
• Simulation Study of Proposed HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion Windows
• TCP-J - Enhanced TCP Westwood (Higher Throughput In Wireless Networks)
• TCP WESTWOOD - Modules for NS-2

Routing

• Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing

Ant Routing

• Ant-like Mobile Agents - NS2 Patch
• Cooperative Reinforcement Learning for Routing in Ad-hoc Networks

Video Traces

• Flower (cif)
• Football (cif)
• MPEG-4 and H.263 Video Traces for Network Performance Evalution
• Video Traces for Network Performance Evaluation

Add-ons & Extensions

• Extend NS's Capability with MFC
• Fast ns-2 simulator
• NANS - Network Analyzer for Network Simulator ns2
• Trace graph

Source Code

• Cooperative Reinforcement Learning for Routing in Ad-hoc Networks
• End Buffer Management and Congestion for Video
• How to evaluate MPEG video transmission using the NS2 simulator
• Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents in Wireless Internet
• The Network Simulator: Contributed Code
• The source codes for Implementing a New Manet Unicast Routing Protocol in NS2 (Protoname)

Some more links

• 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