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Installing ‘lorawan’ extension module version v0.3.1 under ns-3.42

LoRaWAN The LoRa Alliance first defined the LoRaWAN standard with the objective of creating a medium access scheme and a set of network management policies that leverage the properties of […]

Simulation and Analysis of IoT LoRaWAN Networks Under ns-3

Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN). These networks use low-power radio signals, such as those in the sub-1 GHz range, to send small amounts of data over a large area. LPWANs are […]

Creating Random Road Network, Traffic Flows, Signals in SUMO

SUMO has different tools for creating and customizing road networks and traffic flows and traffic signals. In this article, we will use some of those tools available in SUMO to […]

Implementation of Spring Mobility Model for ns-3 and Visualizing it in 3D along with Circle Mobility

Spring Mobility Spring mobility is nothing but making a node to move in a path similar to that of an expanded circular coil spring. From the top or bottom point […]

Implementation of Circle Mobility Model for ns-3 and Visualizing it in 3D

Mobility Models of ns-3. The default ns-3 installation will contain the following mobility models. MobilityModel Subclasses ConstantPosition ConstantVelocity ConstantAcceleration GaussMarkov Hierarchical RandomDirection2D RandomWalk2D RandomWaypoint SteadyStateRandomWaypoint Waypoint PositionAllocator Position allocators […]

3D Aquatic Animal Tracking Underwater Network Simulation (UWSN) Under ns-3

Aquatic Animal Tracking: Tracking marine animals can be extremely tricky due to GPS signals not functioning well underwater[1]. Underwater acoustic communication is a technique of sending and receiving messages below […]

Installing the Simulation Execution Manager for ns-3

Traditionally, in earlier days, a batch of ns-2 simulations were run using suitable scripting languages and the trace analysis was also done using scripts written in different scripting languages such […]
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Installing ‘lorawan’ extension module version v0.3.1 under ns-3.42

LoRaWAN The LoRa Alliance first defined the LoRaWAN standard with the objective of creating a medium access scheme and a set of network management policies that leverage the properties of […]
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Installing ns-3.42 and NetAnim Under Debian 11

ns-3.42 was released on May 29, 2024. The main feature addition in ns-3.42 was support for the 3GPP 38.311 Non-Terrestrial Networks channel model, including a new circular aperture antenna model […]
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Procedure for Installing the NetAnim on New Apple Mac M1/M2.

Problem with Qt 5 on Apple Silicon M1/M2. The reason why Qt 5 may not work out of the box on Apple Silicon M1, M2, and M3 is primarily due […]
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Procedure for Installing ns-3 (3.40) on New Apple Mac M1/M2.

Introduction. Always I love to build and run ns-3 simulations only on Intel-based Linux machines for ‘historical reasons’ of Intel’s multi-core performance; particularly in terms of compilation speed. So, most […]
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Bare Minimal TinyCore Linux for installing Latest ns-3-dev.

Introduction. Nowadays, a typical minimal Linux installation with X/GUI , on a hard disk may consume 1.5 GB to 5 GB. In addition to that, if you just try to […]
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Live, Interactive Visualisation of ns-3 Simulation with PyViz

PyViz Unlike the offline animation tool NetAnim, PyViz is a live simulation visualizer for visualizing ns-3 simulation. It was developed by Gustavo Carneiro[3]. It is written in Python and can […]
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Doing Research in Public Safety Communication using psc-ns3.

Public Safety Communications (PSC) in ns-3. The support for public safety communications (PSC) in ns-3 relies on the newer capabilities introduced in 3GPP Release 12 and subsequent releases for 4G […]
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Sending ICMP Traffic From an ns-3-FdNetDevice Node to a Real Host Over a Real Channel

Declaration: This is nothing but a log of my experiments. There may be a correct/standard way of resolving this problem. But, here, I am presenting my own experiment and a […]
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Realistic 3D Visualization of UWSN Scenario with NetSimulyzer

Aqua-Sim Aqua-Sim is an underwater network simulator that supports a vast amount of protocols and features. Originally developed on the basis of NS-2, Aqua-Sim can effectively simulate acoustic signal attenuation […]
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Installing Aquasim-NG in ns-3.38 and Visualizing UWSN in 3D.

Aqua-Sim Aqua-Sim is an underwater network simulator that supports a vast amount of protocols and features. Originally developed on the basis of NS-2, Aqua-Sim can effectively simulate acoustic signal attenuation […]
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Installing NetSimulyzer for Visualising IoD_Sim FANET in 3D.

IoD_Sim IoD_Sim is an open source and system-level simulator for the IoD (Internet of Drones). It is developed on top of the well-known ns-3 (Network Simulator 3), it implements the […]
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Installing Internet of Drones Simulator (IoD_Sim) in Debian

In [1], the authors abstractly explain IoD and their IoD_Sim as follows: “The Internet of Drones (IoD) is a networking architecture that stems from the interplay between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles […]
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Visualizing ns-3 LEO Satellite Network using NetSimulyzer 3D

Introduction to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). A Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network is a type of satellite communication system where satellites are placed in low Earth orbits, typically at […]
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Simulating LEO Satellite Network using ns-3 LEO Module

Introduction to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). A Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network is a type of satellite communication system where satellites are placed in low Earth orbits, typically at […]
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