096 CN Practical6

[ 2CEIT503 COMPUTER NETWORKS ]
Practical: 6
AIM- Study and installation of Network Simulator.
Department of Computer Engineering

2CEIT503-COMPUTER NETWORKS Practical: 6
AIM : Study and installation of Network Simulator.
Introduction
The network simulator is discrete event packet level simulator. The network simulator covers a very large number of
application of different kind of protocols of different network types consisting of different network elements and traffic
models. Network simulator is a package of tools that simulates behavior of networks such as creating network topologies,
log events that happen under any load, analyze the events and understand the network. Well the main aim of our first
experiment is to learn how to use network simulator and to get acquainted with the simulated objects and understand the
operations of network simulation and we also need to analyze the behavior of the simulation object using network simulation.
Platform required to run network simulator
Linux and UNIX like systems

Linux (Use Fedora or Ubuntu versions)
Free BSD
SunOS/Solaris
Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Backend Environment of Network Simulator
Network Simulator is mainly based on two languages. They are C++ and OTcl. OTcl is the object oriented version of Tool
Command language. The network simulator is a bank of different network and protocol objects. C++ helps in the following
way:
• It helps to increase the efficiency of simulation.

• It is used to provide details of the protocols and their operation.
• OTcl helps in the following way:
• With the help of OTcl we can describe different network topologies
• It helps us to specify the protocols and their applications
• It allows fast development
• Tcl is compatible with many platforms and it is flexible for integration
• Tcl is very easy to use and it is available in free
• Developed by UC Berkeley
• Maintained by USC
• Popular simulator in scientific environment
• Other popular network simulators – Glomosim: UCLA, CMU; ParseC, Mobile
Simulation mostly – OPNET: commercial software, graphical interface, not free; –
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• Others: commercial ones, not free, e.g. IBM TPNS
NS2 Goals
• To support networking research and education
• Protocol design, traffic studies, etc.
• Protocol comparison;
• New architecture designs are also supported.
• To provide collaborative environment
• Freely distributed, open source;
• Increase confidence in result
Two Languages:
C++, OTcl OTcl: short for MIT Object Tcl, an extension to Tcl/Tk for object-oriented programming.
• Used to build the network structure and topology which is just the surface of your simulatoion;
• Easily to configure your network parameters;
• Not enough for research schemes and protocol architecture adaption.
• Two Languages (Con’t) C++: Most important and kernel part of the NS2
• To implement the kernel of the architecture of the protocol designs;
• From the packet flow view, the processes run on a single node;
• To change or “comment out” the existing protocols running in NS2;
• Details of your research scheme.
Why 2 Languages?
• 2 requirements of the simulator – Detailed simulation of Protocol: Run-time speed; – Varying parameters or
configuration: easy to use.
• C++ is fast to run but slower to code and change;
• OTcl is easy to code but runs slowly
Protocols/Models supported by NS2
• Wired Networking – Routing: Unicast, Multicast, and Hierarchical Routing, etc. – Transportation: TCP, UDP,
others; – Traffic sources: web, ftp, telnet, cbr, etc. – Queuing disciplines: drop-tail, RED, etc. – QoS: IntServ and
Diffserv Wireless Networking
• Ad hoc routing and mobile IP
• Sensor Networks(hmmm) – SensorSim: built up on NS2, additional features, for TinyOS
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NS2 Models
• Traffic models and applications: Web, FTP, telnet, constant-bit rate(CBR) • Transport protocols: Unicast: TCP
(Reno,Vegas), UDP Multicast • Routing and queuing: Wired routing, Ad Hoc routing. • Queuing protocols: RED(Random
Early Drop), drop-tail • Physical media:
Wired (point-to-point, LANs), wireless, satellite
Researches based on NS2
• Intserv/Diffserv (QoS) • Multicast: Routing, Reliable multicast • Transport: TCP Congestion control • Application: Web
caching Multimedia • Sensor Networks: LEACH, Directed Diffusion, etc. Most are routing protocols.
NS2 Components
• NS2: the simulator itself, now version: ns-2.26 We will work with the part mostly. • NAM: Network animator.
Visualized trace tool(not really). Nam editor: GUI interface to generate ns scripts Just for presentation now, not useful for
research tracing. • Pre-processing: Traffic and topology generators • Post-processing: Simple trace analysis, often in Awk,
Perl(mostly), or Tcl
Installation of NS2
Installation Steps for ns-2.35 on Ubuntu above 24.04.1
Step 1: Download ns2.35

- http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnam/files/allinone/ns-allinone-2.35/ns-allinone-2.35.tar.gz/download
Step 2: Run following commands in terminal

- sudo apt update
- sudo apt install build-essential autoconf automake libxmu-dev - sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list *changes in sources.list
file:
-copy and paste last Repository Configuration Section and change below things
-URls: http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
-Suites: bioniic-updates bionic
-Components: main universe
-sudo apt update
Step 3: Now install gcc and g++ for ns2 sudo

apt install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8
Step 4: Extract downloaded ns2 zip file in Home folder
Step 5: Replace CC, CPP to gcc-4.8, g++-4.8 in following files
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-nam-1.15/Makefile.in
-ns2.35/makefile.in
-otcl-1.14/Makefile.in
-xgraph-12.2/Makefile.in
*change line 137: add 'this->erase' keyword in ls.h file -ns-
2.35/linkstate/ls.h
Step 6: Now install ns2.35 using following commands

-cd ns-allinone-2.35/
-./install
*After successful installation don't close this terminal
Step 7: Now open another terminal and add following paths

-gedit .bashrc
*In installation command terminal copy first path which is starts from "Please put" and paste in file like this:
-export PATH=$PATH:pastepath
*again go to installation command terminal and copy path which starts from "(1) You MUST put" and paste in file like this:
-export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=pastepath
-source.bashrc
Step 8: Use following commands to verify ns2 successfully installed -ns

#Output: %
-nam
#Output: pop up small window
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[ 2CEIT503 COMPUTER NETWORKS ]

AIM- Study and installation of Network Simulator.

Department of Computer Engineering

AIM : Study and installation of Network Simulator.

Platform required to run network simulator

Linux and UNIX like systems

Backend Environment of Network Simulator

• It helps to increase the efficiency of simulation.

Protocols/Models supported by NS2

Researches based on NS2

Installation Steps for ns-2.35 on Ubuntu above 24.04.1

Step 1: Download ns2.35

Step 2: Run following commands in terminal

Step 3: Now install gcc and g++ for ns2 sudo

Step 4: Extract downloaded ns2 zip file in Home folder

Step 5: Replace CC, CPP to gcc-4.8, g++-4.8 in following files

Step 6: Now install ns2.35 using following commands

Step 7: Now open another terminal and add following paths

Step 8: Use following commands to verify ns2 successfully installed -ns

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