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NS2 network simulator
DEVANG PATEL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduction
NS (Version 2) is an open source network simulation tool. It is an object oriented, discrete
event driven simulator written in C++ and Otcl. The primary use of NS is in network
researches to simulate various types of wired/wireless local and wide area networks; to
implement network protocols such as TCP and UDP, traffic source behavior such as FTP,
Telnet, Web, CBR and VBR, router queue management mechanism such as Drop Tail, RED
and CBQ, routing algorithms such as Dijkstra, and many more.Ns2 is written in C++ and Otcl
to separate the control and data path implementations.
Otcl basics
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Procedures
One can define new procedures with the proc command. The first argument to proc is the
name of the procedure and the second argument contains the list of the argument names to
that procedure. For instance a procedure that calculates the sum of two numbers can be
defined as follow
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set a 5
set b 5
proc sum {a b} {
expr $a + $b
}
STARTING PROCEDURE
CODE
#Simulator is a class
set ns [new Simulator]
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set nf [open out.nam w]
$ns namtrace-all $nf
proc finish {} {
global ns nf
$ns flush-trace
#Close the trace file
close $nf
#Executenam on the trace file
exec nam out.nam &
exit0}
#Create five nodes
set n0 [$ns node]
set n1 [$ns node]
set n2 [$ns node]
set n3 [$ns node]
set n4 [$ns node]
set n5 [$ns node]
#Change the shape of center node in a star topology
$n0 shape square
#Create links between the nodes
$ns duplex-link $n0 $n1 1Mb 10ms DropTail
$ns duplex-link $n0 $n2 1Mb 10ms DropTail
$ns duplex-link $n0 $n3 1Mb 10ms DropTail
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$ns duplex-link $n0 $n4 1Mb 10ms DropTail
$ns duplex-link $n0 $n5 1Mb 10ms DropTail
#Create a TCP agent and attach it to node n0
set tcp0 [new Agent/TCP]
$tcp0 set class_ 1
$ns attach-agent $n1 $tcp0
#Create a TCP Sink agent (a traffic sink) for TCP and attach it to node n3
set sink0 [new Agent/TCPSink]
$ns attach-agent $n3 $sink0
#Connect the traffic sources with the traffic sink
$ns connect $tcp0 $sink0
# Create a CBR traffic source and attach it to tcp0
set cbr0 [new Application/Traffic/CBR]
$cbr0 set packetSize_ 500
$cbr0 set interval_ 0.01
$cbr0 attach-agent $tcp0
#Schedule events for the CBR agents
$ns at 0.5 "$cbr0 start"
$ns at 4.5 "$cbr0 stop"
#Call the finish procedure after 5 seconds of simulation time
$ns at 5.0 "finish"
#Run the simulation
$ns run
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Topology
Prepared by: Dhruvisha Vasoya
Submitted to: Drashti Garadharia
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