CIDRarchy: CIDR-based ns-3 routing protocol for large scale network simulation

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

da Silva, PM (Author) Other; Dias, J (Author) Other; Manuel Ricardo (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: SIMUTOOLS 2015 - 8th EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Pages: 267-272

8th EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques, SIMUTOOLS 2015

24 August 2015 through 26 August 2015

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Scopus - 3 Citations

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Authenticus ID: P-00G-TN0

DOI: 10.4108/eai.24-8-2015.2261082

Abstract (EN): ns-3 is the successor of ns-2, the most popular network simulator. Network simulators such as ns-3 play an important role on understanding, designing, and building Internet systems. But simulations are only as good as their models, and the simulation of large scale Internet systems using accurate and complex models is a challenging task. ns-3 simulates realistically the network stack but the scale and complexity of the Internet topology is, from our point of view, limited by the IP forwarding operations. This work proposes CIDRarchy, an IPv4 routing protocol for ns-3 that uses CIDR as the base to create an hierarchical Internet-like network topology that enables (1) IP forwarding with constant time complexity and automatic IPv4 address assignment, and (2) the implementation of an ns-3 helper to ease network topology creation. We implemented CIDRarchy, evaluated its performance, and obtained simulation time reduction over existing ns-3 routing protocols implementations that can reach over one order of magnitude. Copyright © 2015 ICST.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific