Open Source Network Simulators

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Graphical Network Simulator-3 is a network software emulator first released in 2008. It allows the combination of virtual and real devices, used to simulate complex networks. It uses Dynamips emulation software to simulate Cisco IOS.

The goal of this project is to be an improvement of the original Network Animator (NAM) module provided as part of the Network Simulator 2 (NS2). This tool provides topology visualization, TCL script generation, and enhanced simulation animation.

UM-OLSR is an OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing protocol) implementation for the ns2 network simulator.

AWNetS(Aibear Wireless Network Simulator)is a C++ written,fire-new discrete-event wireless network simulator which integrates network and communication simulations.It also focuses on various kinds of wireless networks including satellite and HAP.

Implemetaion the protocol AntHocNet in Network Simulator 2 (NS-2)

A cycle-accurate interconnection network simulator. Brought to you by the Concurrent VLSI Architecture group at Stanford University. The SourceForge website is no longer actively maintained. Instead, please follow the link in the profile.

A neuronal network simulator using NeuroML (as generated by neuroConstruct) for network description. Conductance- and rate-based Hodgkin-Huxley neuron models, and a number of other neurons & synapses. A 5-6-order RK method is used for integration.

Cervelletto is a neural network simulator. It uses a new neural model based on biological, neurological and psychological studies. [it's not yet completed... just give me some weeks! sorry!]

This project is based on a personal effort for researches on dynamics of coevovling networks. As a physicist, I am trying to build a framework for discrete-time dynamics of general networks, and its software libraries with APIs.

Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) for Network Simulator.

DSR-UU is an implementation of the Dynamic Source Routing protocol that runs in the Linux kernel or in the ns-2 network simulator. It was originally created at Uppsala University, hence the UU.

This project provides DiffServ simulations improvements for the Network Simulator 2. The current version works for NS2 version 2.29

A simulator for learning techniques for dynamic bayesian networks.

A Graphical Editor and Animator for the ns-2 Network Simulator.

GatcomSUMO is a multi-platform application that facilitates the building of VANET simulations using the SUMO traffic simulator and the OMNeT++ network simulator. The tasks related to the generation of abstract or synthetic scenarios, the download and conversion of network scenarios based on real maps (e.g. from OpenStreetMap), the route creation process, and the vehicles mobility modelling are integrated in a user-friendly graphical interface. This tool performs the necessary actions by invoking the set of utilities included in SUMO, saving the user from typing complex command-line orders. GatcomSUMO visualizes the network and routes easily, and they are created in such a way to meet the requirements of the involved simulators, in particular OMNeT++, in order to avoid misunderstandings and runtime errors. The application allows the conversion of the spatial coordinates used by SUMO into those used by OMNeT++, which is essential to place fixed elements like RSUs.

This is a basic implementation of an Information-Centric Network simulator, following the architecture suggested by Blackadder. It was by the University of Essex for the needs of the PAL project and it include Publishers, Subscribers, RV and a Topology Manager.

An implementation of the GSD service discovery protocol for the network simulator ns2 (http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/). The protocol core is written in c++ whereas simulation settings and scenarios can be set up via OTCL scripts -- as usual in ns2.

iSNS is an interactive neural network simulator written in Java/Java3D. The program is intended to be used in lessons of Neural Networks. The program was developed by students as the software project at Charles University in Prague.

JBotSim is a multipurpose dynamic network simulator that allows to quickly prototype a distributed algorithm and test its behavior on a set of static or mobile nodes. If mobile, the nodes can be controlled by the mouse or by program.

This is a network simulator. This is meant to be user friendly as well as feature rich. This field lacks software with good user interface. Even the commercial softwares in this field is quite lame. This aimed to go along Multisim(R) and Blender(R) form

LiNNS is not just a Neural Network Simulator, but a Neural Network System - a framework which covers the full lifecycle of a neural network, from design and research till usage in an external application.

Liowsn (Linux for works with WSN) was created to assist teachers, students and people involved with projects of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The operating system is Ubuntu 9.10 remastered and it contains several tools for simulation and testing installed to work with WSN. Discussion Group: http://groups.google.com/group/liowsn-users User manual: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4912938/LiowsnManual_EN.pdf (English Version) https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4912938/LiowsnManual_PT.pdf (Portuguese Version)

Mangrovia is a tool for automatic complex multilayer topology generation in a compatible format with Network Simulator 2 (ns-2). Based on specs (in xml format), software creates an otcl script. Users can set Bandwidths, Distances, Linking Policies.

The NS-Mapper ad-hoc scenario editor is improved and extended by adding more realistic strategies, such as random based node placement, movement and traffic to the ad-hoc simulation of the Network Simulator 2 (NS-2).