2013/07/15 by Atta ur Rehman Khana, Khana, Atta ur Rehman, Sardar M. Bilalb +3
Computer Science · #Distributed #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Mobile Ad Hoc Networks #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks #Parallel #Performance (cs.PF) #Wireless Networks and Protocols #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC) #cs.DC #cs.NI #cs.PF
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1307.4129
arxiv created 2013/07/15 · openalex publication_date 2013/07/15 · arxiv updated 2013/07/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Network simulation is the most useful and common methodology used to evaluate different network to-pologies without real world implementation. Network simulators are widely used by the research community to evaluate new theories and hypotheses. There are a number of network simulators, for instance, ns-2, ns-3, OMNET++, SWAN, OPNET, Jist, and GloMoSiM etc. Therefore, the selection of a network simulator for evaluating research work is a crucial task for researchers. The main focus of this paper is to compare the state-of-the-art, open source network simulators based on the following parameters: CPU utilization, memory usage, computational time, and scalability by simulating a MANET routing protocol, to identify an optimal network simulator for the research community.