An Extension of NS-3 Simulator to Support Efficient MANET Performance Analysis

Abstract

Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are widely used in everyday life. Evaluation of MANETs performances can be a complicated task since it involves complex technology and mobile network nodes. Network Simulator-3 (NS-3) is an open source simulator popular in the research community for wireless network simulation. In the current release of NS-3, there is no suitable universal tool for the estimation of parameters such as throughput, packet loss ratio, end-to-end delay, jitter, and others, which are necessary for MANET performance evaluation. Therefore, we have developed an extension of NS-3 that is easy to use and provides efficient network performance analysis. In order to evaluate proposed implementation, a series of simulations of one MANET network scenario within the Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol is done, and simulation results are presented. The source code of the developed tool is publicly available.