Biology-Inspired techniques for Self Organization in dynamic Networks Architecture of the Simulation Environment

This document describes the architectural design of the simulation environment for the BISON project. Given the different simulation requirements (in terms of scalability, network models, level of detail) needed by ad-hoc networks and overlay networks, we propose two different architectures. The simulation architecture for ad-hoc networks builds up on an existing packet-level simulator, namely the publicly available GloMoSim. The use of its commercial and enhanced version QualNet is also envisaged. On the other hand, the architecture of the overlay network simulator is based on a completely custom design specifically optimized for the simulation of very large networks and the analysis of graph-theoretical structures.