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The simulation of a Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET), before deployment or during the system running, provides a priori design validation and insightful observation of the real system. But existing simulation tools mainly enable these by means of centralized instead of distributed deployment, which in some sense, cannot truly replicate the real system settings. In this paper, we present a DIstributively deployable Simulation tool for MANet (DISMAN), to accurately simulate MANET in a fully-distributed fashion thus allowing the emulation to scale with the network nodes without sacrificing accuracy. DISMAN is a fully functional tool that can be integrated with Kubernetes, support link layer (e.g., bandwidth limitation, delay, packet loss) and the multi-path as well as multi-hop transmission simulations. DISMAN is based on a four-layer architecture design, where on the top is a graphical user interface (GUI) layer for presentation and interaction. We further evaluate DISMAN with micro- and macro-benchmarks and show that DISMAN is easy to use and can assist MANET design by high level qualitatitive and quantitative simulations.
This work was supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program (No. 2020YFB2009503) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. DUT19RC(3)067).
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Shu, X., Wang, H., Xu, Z., Ning, K., Wu, G. (2022). A Distributed Simulator of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In: Wang, L., Segal, M., Chen, J., Qiu, T. (eds) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. WASA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13473. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19211-1_14
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