Evaluating network simulators as extensions of real network testbeds
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Network testbeds are limited and often hard to configure. One method of overcoming these limitations is to use network simulators for extending a testbed. This paper aims to find out which network simulator is best able to extend a network testbed. Simulators are compared by their ability to provide a proposed environment in a network testbed. Both objective and subjective criteria are used in the comparison. The evaluated simulators are the well-known tools ns-3 and OMNeT++.
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