Description
Book SynopsisLearn to run your own simulation by working with model analysis, mathematical background, simulation output data, and most importantly, a network simulator for wireless technology. This book introduces the best practices of simulator use, the techniques for analyzing simulations with artificial agents and the integration with other technologies such as Power Line Communications (PLC).
Network simulation is a key technique used to test the future behavior of a network. It''s a vital development component for the development of 5G, IoT, wireless sensor networks, and many more. This book explains the scope and evolution of the technology that has led to the development of dynamic systems such as Internet of Things and fog computing.
You''ll focus on the ad hoc networks with stochastic behavior and dynamic nature, and the ns-3 simulator. These are useful open source tools for academics, researchers, students and engineers to deploy tel
Table of Contents
Part I: Simulation Basics
Chapter 1: Network Simulation 3Synopsis: The first chapter shows a detailed explanation on simulation, kinds of simulation and the first look at the ns-3 simulator and its formal specification.1.1 Framework1.2 Simulation, models and their importance in research1.2.1 Types of Simulation Techniques1.3 Formal Systems Concepts1.4 Simulation and Emulation1.5 Network Simulators1.6 NS3 Simulator general features1.7 Formal Concepts and NS3Formal Specification1.8 Complementary Readings
Chapter 2: Wireless Networks and Ad hoc NetworksSynopsis: The second chapter shows the evolution on wireless networks and its capabilities on the computing and social systems, explain the new architectures and environments for distributed systems and a particularly case of the ad hoc networks. This chapter introduce theoretical and conceptual the wireless networks.2.1 Connectivity and Mobility Evolution2.2 History of Wireless Communication Technologies2.2.1 Computing Architecture with Wireless Networks2.2.2 Internet of Things (IoT)2.2.3 Fog Computing2.2.4 Edge Computing2.3 Mobile Clouds and Ad hoc Network2.4 Features and challenges of MANETs2.5 Wireless mesh networks and wireless sensor networks2.6 Cooperation in MANETs2.7 Routing Protocols2.7.1 Distance Vector and Link State Routing2.8 Social Clouds2.9 Manet Clusters2.10 Complementary Readings
Chapter 3: Experiment DesignSynopsis: the third chapter shows the steps and the best practices to design a simulation experiment, the assumptions, models and techniques for determine the factors, the experiments and the core of an simulation experiment. Is a theoretical chapter3.1 Design of Simulations Experiments3.2 Factorial designs3.3 Complementary Readings
Part II: Network Simulator
Chapter 4: Network Simulation using NS3Synopsis: The fourth chapter introduces the network simulator 3, his features, computational models, composition and computational structure with examples and detailed explanation of this module, code style and other toolkits useful on ns3 to deploy and run a simulation experiment.4.1 What is NS3?4.2 Relations between Abstractions on NS34.3 Code Style4.4 My First Network4.4.1 Running and Build other scripts4.5 Emulation on NS34.6 Animating the Simulation4.7 Scheduler4.8 Logging and tracing4.8.1 Trace helpers4.8.2 Using Command line Arguments4.9 Exercises
Chapter 5: Analyses of ResultsSynopsis: The fifth chapter shows the importance of make a well analysis of results and the experiment outputs ,show the statistical techniques for evaluate the quality of data and how validate and verify if an experiment is successful or not5.1 Output data analysis for a single system5.1.1 Transient and steady state behavior of a stochastic process5.2 The random nature of the simulation output5.3 Types of simulation according to the output analysis5.3.1 Statistical analysis for terminating (or transient) simulations5.3.2 Statistical analysis for steady state parameters5.3.3 The replication deletion approach5.4 Complementary Readings
Part III: Wireless Network Simulation on NS3
Chapter 6: Manet Simulation on NS3Synopsis: The sixth chapter shows a detailed explanation with examples, abstractions descriptions, methods and computation models used to create an ad hoc network on ns-3, the second part of this chapter introduce the Agent based simulation (ABS) for ns-3 on a wireless ad hoc network and the analysis of results with this kind of techniques. The tool used is an application build on ns-3 that allows the use of agents with the simulator6.1 A simple Ad hoc network6.1.1 Wifi Model6.1.2 Node Abstractions6.1.3 Socket abstraction6.1.4 Plot6.1.5 Output6.2 Agent Based Simulation6.2.1 Description of the experiment6.2.2 Abstractions6.2.3 Tracing6.2.4 Run Simulation6.2.5 Analysis of Results6.2.6 Run and Analyze6.2.7 Results6.3 Complementary Readings
Chapter 7: Manets and PLC on NS3Synopsis: The Seventh chapter introduce the integration of wireless networks with other kind of technologies, in this case with the Power line communications PLC and how is possible create new node abstractions on the ns-3 simulator a combine different physical mediums to create a network and share services.7.1 Power Line Communication7.1.1 Fundamental Characteristics of the PLC Channel7.1.2 Deterministic Models of PLC Channel7.2 PLC Software for NS3 Simulation7.3 MANET and PLC Simulation7.4 Complementary Readings
Part IV: AppendicesXSynopsis: The book includes three appendix: basic statistics, ns-3 installation, and OpenAi Gym framework instalation on ns-3 to allow the Agent Based Simulation (ABS)Appendix A: Basic StatisticsA.1 Random Variables and Random VectorsA.1.1 Random VariablesA.1.2 Probability Density FunctionsA.1.3 Random VectorA.1.4 IndependenceA.1.5 Expected ValueA.1.6 VarianceA.1.7 CovarianceA.1.8 Correlation CoefficientA.1.9 Binomial Random VariableA.1.10 Normal Random VariableA.1.11 Geometric Random VariableA.1.12 Uniform Random Variable
Appendix B: NS3 Installation
Appendix C: ns3gym: OpenAI Gym integrationC.1 Installation
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