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 tools for academics, researchers, students and engineers to deploy telecommunications experiments, proofs and new scenarios with a high degree of similarity with reality. You'll also benefit from a detailed explanation of the examples and the theoretical components needed to deploy wireless simulations or wired, if necessary.

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Jorge Eduardo Ortiz Triviño received his PhD in Engineering Computing Systems and Masters Degrees in Telecommunications, Statistics, and Philosophy from the National University of Colombia. Jorge is currently a professor at the National University of Colombia, while also working as a network specialist.

Chapter 1: Network Simulation 3

Synopsis: 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 Framework

1.2 Simulation, models and their importance in research

1.2.1 Types of Simulation Techniques

1.3 Formal Systems Concepts

1.4 Simulation and Emulation

1.5 Network Simulators

1.6 NS3 Simulator general features

1.7 Formal Concepts and NS3

Formal Specification

1.8 Complementary Readings

Chapter 2: Wireless Networks and Ad hoc Networks

Synopsis: 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 Evolution

2.2 History of Wireless Communication Technologies

2.2.2 Internet of Things (IoT)

2.2.3 Fog Computing

2.2.4 Edge Computing

2.3 Mobile Clouds and Ad hoc Network

2.4 Features and challenges of MANETs

2.5 Wireless mesh networks and wireless sensor networks

2.7 Routing Protocols

2.7.1 Distance Vector and Link State Routing

2.8 Social Clouds

2.9 Manet Clusters

2.10 Complementary Readings

Chapter 3: Experiment Design

Synopsis: 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 chapter

3.1 Design of Simulations Experiments

3.2 Factorial designs

3.3 Complementary Readings

Part II: Network Simulator

Chapter 4: Network Simulation using NS3

Synopsis: 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 NS3

4.4 My First Network

4.4.1 Running and Build other scripts

4.5 Emulation on NS3

4.6 Animating the Simulation

4.7 Scheduler

4.8 Logging and tracing

4.8.1 Trace helpers

4.8.2 Using Command line Arguments

4.9 Exercises

Chapter 5: Analyses of Results

Synopsis: 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 not

5.1 Output data analysis for a single system

5.1.1 Transient and steady state behavior of a stochastic process

5.2 The random nature of the simulation output

5.3 Types of simulation according to the output analysis

5.3.1 Statistical analysis for terminating (or transient) simulations

5.3.2 Statistical analysis for steady state parameters

5.3.3 The replication deletion approach

5.4 Complementary Readings

Part III: Wireless Network Simulation on NS3

Chapter 6: Manet Simulation on NS3

Synopsis: 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 networ...