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Fast ns-2 simulator

The fast ns-2 simulator is the modification of a
popular network simulator (ns-2). Fast ns-2 is
developed at the Laboratory for Software
Technologies at ETH Zrich to enable simulation of
large scale ad hoc wireless networks.

Description
An ad hoc network is formed by wireless mobile
nodes (hosts) that operate as terminals as well as
routers in the network, without any centralized
administration. Research in ad hoc networks often
involves simulators since management and
operation of a large number of nodes is expensive.
However, the widely used simulator ns-2 does not
scale; it is very hard to simulate medium scale
networks with 100+ nodes.
We have modified ns-2 to meet the needs of large
ad hoc network simulations. The modified ns-2
simulator is based on the idea of exploiting the
limited interference of wireless communication. The
modified simulator has simulated populations of up
to 3000 nodes so far and works up to 30 times
faster than the original version.

Install & configure

IMPORTANT: The last ns-2
release (ns-2.27) does include
our changes!
To download the last ns-2 release visit :
www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns
If you have an older ns-2 version already
installed, you can still download our patch
from this site.

Requirements
To be able to use fast ns-2 you will need:
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A machine with an installation of the standard

ns-2 simulator (versions 2.1b6a, 2.1b7a,
2.1b9a-gcc32 or 2.26).
To download and install standard simulator
please visit the ns-2 home page.

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Any C/C++ compiler (as GCC)

Installation procedure
To install fast ns-2 you must have a write access to
the directory with the standard ns-2 installation.
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Download the fast-ns2 package

Extract the fast-ns2 source tree into some
temporary location
Run the configure script to set up fast-ns2 for
your configuration .

Documentation
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Valeri Naoumov, Thomas Gross, Simulation of

Large Ad Hoc Networks,
In Proceedings of The Sixth ACM International
Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation
of Wireless and Mobile Systems (in conjunction
with ACM MobiCOM 2003), September 2003,
San Diego, CA, USA
ACM, 2003. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by
permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The
definitive version was published in the Proceedings of MSWiM (September
2003) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/940991.941001

Usage
ns your-wireless-sim.tcl -tr your-trace-file.tr >>
your-trace-file.tr

You must redirect the output into the same trace file
as specified in your tcl script.
That is the only difference in the usage, the rest is
the same as for standard ns-2 (see "The ns
Manual").

Contact
NO SUPPORT. Questions questions, like:
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Starting from which number of nodes fast ns-2

outperforms the standard system?
Why I don't see any difference with 50 nodes?
How to use?
Etc.

are addressed in the paper above. Read it first.

In case of problems please check ns-2 bug reports
and FAQ at www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns
Valeri Naoumov <naoumov**at**inf.ethz.ch>
(Please substitute "**at**" with "@")
file://D:\Softwares023\Science\System Emulations\fast-ns2\Fast ns-2 simulator.htm

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